I'm also going to comment that Neil is the fifth highest ranking post contributer (by post count) on this board, coming in behind one admin, two mods, and a former mod who is still active as a member. So Neil's no slouch when it comes to forum participation.

He's also a pretty even-tempered bloke, all things considered, and he's on UK time (so he's around when mods in Australia and/or North America are not). Plus, he was one of our best "spam post" reporters on the old board, and as a large part of what mods do is delete spam posts, well....