Moderators are voluntary and when they "flag" an ad it's immediately disabled.
If you're going to post, make sure you're "registered" and you place wording in the ad that makes it look like an individual and not a gunbroker auction wording. while I don't recommend it, Alabama ads typically have a local phone number; if I see one with a number, I run it to see where its from and if its not in the State the ad is, chances are its going to get zapped. Usually those numbers will pop up with multiple scams for different things on multiple boards....little bit of paying attention and you can get pretty good at picking them out, but I still wonder how many greedy fuckers that think they're scoring a deal on a two thousand dollar Winchester for $539. get took.
verify EVERYTHING repeatedly and several times before sending a dime.
Oh, and if you get an almost immediate reply with word to the effect of "is this still available" ignore it: all they're doing is capturing a valid e-mail address they can sell to spammers....really, where do you think they get your e-mail address from?