Well have you asked your mods? Maybe they would like a lighter work load?
Seems despite the no comments rule in the trading forum, every thread gets a ton of comments and there seems to be a resentment between people that carry on and not get stopped/settled (except for a banning that I know you say you don't normally do or like to do but had to happen - but I don;t know the details, just know enough that that is unusual so something is going wrong).
I guess the question of 'why?', has to be answered with "to stop the rot".