If you keep carping at the positive people for long enough, then they'll all give and go home - leaving only those who snipe and carp but never actually contribute anything.
That's where we are now - the OP may wish to consider which of the two AB metatypes he/she belongs to ...
I'm not surprised- there was a nice post last night thanking the mods for speedily zapping the stream of spam and it ended up with some slagging off of mods and then two pages of back and forth between the most long-standing ABer/mod and an another long established poster who wouldn't let go and should perhaps take a break/stand back sometimes.