Not a bother at all!!!
And I didn't say, don't PM the mods!
Actually, it might be appropriate to ask a private nonemergency question as a PM. It's just not necessarily the fastest way to get a response.
If you are wondering whether it would be OK to start a thread about something, for example, you could go either way; a PM would give you room to write enough to explain the situation. Or maybe you know a particular mod has experience with a particular breed you are interested in. It's the best way to handle a name change request. There are probably lots of good reasons to PM a mod. We all get PM's from members all the time, about all sorts of things. And we answer.
A PM is just not the best way to handle a spammer, or some new jerk posting nasty stuff, which is all I was trying to get across.
We are mods because we want to help BYC, which means helping members. Heck, it's a hobby to me, and I enjoy it, to tell the truth