Here's what I came up with. Poke holes in it all you want.
-Users/Threads can be marked by VIP users. Flag it, it would have checkboxes similar to reviews on what the issue is. Spamming, Nuisance etc. Check box and/or leave comment. It would have to be a preponderance of users to do this though before action is taken. Perhaps around 40, 50 something like that.
-Once enough VIP users have made the complaint. It would go before a PL Jedi Council of long time, trusted members, respected by their peers (or at least as much as you can on here) who are clearly not trolls. I'll throw out some names, Papi, Shadow, Jackslash, 25, Subra, Shailynn, and others. They would then vote on if this issue is legitimate, same as a review and if passed the recommendation should be presented to founder.
-Action would come in form of a direct warning, 1 week, 2 week, 3 week, 1 month suspension of comment privileges. Not everything has to be LIFETIME BAN OR LIVE! If VIP can still use website as normal otherwise apart from commenting.
-It would then come before Founder and all he would have to do is sign off on it. Similar to the owners role in a sports team where the GM/Front office is really just making recommendations to the owner but the buck stops with the owner. All founder would have to do is set up and then he can look away and only have to deal with it in an easier way then even he has to deal with adding new listings.
-This method protects as best we can against tyrannical, petulant moderators with an agenda that ruin other websites and are an enemy of free speech. They would be worse than any troll here. Similar to how laws are passed in the USA, action would be through VIP Users like the House of Representatives, The Jedi Council would be like the Senate and Founder the President. No one tight ass could ruin it.
-Some would say this doesn't work fast enough, too much work for trolls to come back with more stuff. It's at least something. SOME kind of weapon against the trolls. Right now we have nothing but ignore. Ignore might be ok to a person who's been here, but I've brought this up many times, the person checking out this site for the first time doesn't know how to work the site but if they see millions of spam bullshit they are not going to stay. Degrades the quality. The community is a sitting duck to a dedicated, mentally ill troll.
It's slow, it's methodical. But this ensures if some type of action happens to you, you probably had it coming, it takes the whole god damn community to rally around it. It was likely egregious, repeated, and completely fucking annoying.
Anyway that's my proposal or something along these lines. Probably won't go anywhere but I think it could do the website a lot of good. And lastly to add on, idk if possible but then ignored members can't bump threads in your view. I don't want to lose classic TUSCL, a lot of awesome threads but that would work just fine.
I'm on board with being able to flag posts, threads, and/or users for moderations. Those who can flag should be VIP members and perhaps also Verified members. Sending those posts to a TUSCL "Congress" is a bit problematic, because there are members you listed who have ongoing feuds with other members, and there are some (like subraman) whose participation here is decreasing. So, perhaps open that up to all VIP and/or Verified members rather than a select few. Not sure.
I agree that accounts can be locked down for periods of time rather than deleted outright as a sort of escalation of moderation.
One of the big problems with trolls is that they can launch new profiles almost instantly after being banned (i.e., cacaplop). What if all new accounts needed to either post a review, buy VIP, or wait 30 days before they earned the ability to start threads or comment on anything? That would limit the ability for trolls to turn-and-burn accounts for the sole purpose of trolling.
Regarding the antics of SJGHATESWOMEN, all TUSCL really needs is a bit of server-side software that sees a user flooding the forums (or anyplace else) and shuts down that user's ability to post.