I think we're neglecting to mention the psychological impact on players from a rumour board. Yes, I can split IC and OOC myself, but if someone is getting dogged on pretty harshly from an anonymous rumour board, has anyone thought about how it might affect them on the other side of the screen? As much as I can laugh off and rationalize your playful (I hope) slanders/insults/jabs toward me, some of them do get through. The internet is already a bad place where we can just rip on someone with very little chance of reprisal, and you should all know some of us are more sensitive about being teased/picked on/belittled/insulted/etc etc than others. Where would the line be drawn between insult and playful gaming?
I'm still in a big no toward this. Even with immy moderation, you either A) Have a delayed posting where the imms have to approve it before it's posted (which could then lend to favourtism or some such) and give the imms a huge workload to weed out the no's to the okay's, or B) Post immediatly and it could be days before immies actually look at it(in worst case) and say "Oh wow, that should not be there." By then, it's too late.
So huge no. Just, no. It's not worth the trouble more sensitive players would bring, or my already frakked up psychological issues as is. A gossip board is just bullying, and we should not be promoting bullying, even in an RP environment where people can post on a whim.