Fixed or single speed

Another beautiful thing is the data protection act. Which applies to any company or organization in the UK. This forums site administrator is required to keep all member info for 6 years.

I know you're having trouble reading this reply, I thought I'd slow you down just a little, but...

I don't follow the above. I (for it is a single person operation) am not a company, nor an organisation. So I am not registered as any entity that would fall under the laws you think might apply. Further, the forum isn't even hosted in the UK, it's not even hosted in Europe. It's hosted somewhere that has no data protection or data retention laws... Missouri, USA.

And to make the forum nice and zippy, I turn off the web server logs and the only data captured for analytics is anonymised and disconnected from the users behind the numbers.

The only thing I do capture is IP addresses when people participate in some way. But as you've found out the only real use of that is being able to put someone on 'miserable'. A delightful feature that will give you random pages, after random wait times, and generally makes it look like your (not you're) internet has just broken. Does it work? I'll let your silence tell us.