A self-appointed neighbor removes flyers from our shared noticeboard if she considers them irrelevant. Who should moderate it?

The corkboard in our building lobby has never had written rules.

Residents post babysitting offers, event notices, items for sale and occasional petitions. Lately, one neighbor has begun removing anything she considers “not building-related.” She takes down local concert flyers, tutoring ads and notices from a nearby mutual-aid group.

She says the board had become cluttered and that expired paper hid important management notices. She is correct about the clutter. She is not management, and nobody agreed that she would decide relevance.

My own flyer for a weekend language exchange disappeared after one day. When I asked, she retrieved it from her recycling bin and said social events belong online. That is her preference, not an established category.

I do not want the solution to be putting every removed paper back until the board becomes unusable. We need simple rules: size limit, date on each posting, automatic removal after a defined period and one protected section for official notices.

Management can publish those rules and identify who clears expired material. Content should be removed for neutral reasons such as age, duplication or prohibited commercial use, not because one resident finds the subject insufficiently relevant.

The neighbor is willing to keep doing the cleanup. She may be the obvious volunteer once the discretion is narrowed. Asking her to stop everything could lose useful maintenance along with unauthorized moderation.

I plan to ask management to pause discretionary removals, restore current dated notices and approve a board policy. Until then, residents should not treat possession of the recycling bin as editorial authority.

Would you confront the neighbor directly, ask management to set rules or propose a resident vote? How can a community preserve volunteer effort while removing the personal gatekeeping that grew around it?