I have been in back and forth email communication with both Marty and Jan. The general consensus is to go ahead and make Pedro1 a permanent and NON-BAN-ABLE member! It is also being taken into consideration to rename the message board after him and to give him the power to ban administrators for up to 1 week at a time.
Even Jesse and Simon agree with us that this is the best thing that we can all do for the message board's future...