I was speaking to Phil earlier and I said the forum is great for people to vent off, especially in these testing times, the mods said they would be more lenient with posters as they understand how important the forum can be, yet we have this going on instead.
JK made it clear the other week he wasn’t happy with stuff. We’ve experimented and been as lenient as we can with going completely soft and issuing thread bans, then section bans. If people don’t take the hint then unfortunately they need to live with what happens.
Times are shit for lots of people, not sure why the mods are suddenly not allowed that. We’ve had people ill, families, kids to deal with, work and a whole new life just the same as everyone else. The last thing we then want is to have to come here and police people who can’t act appropriately(and it seems to always be a minority). People have complained it’s been getting out of hand and ruining the site, others complain that it should be allowed(although those people also seem to complain it annoys them). We can’t win. If people can’t self regulate themselves and need us to constantly mop up behind them then maybe it isn’t the place for them. If we lose the additional subforums because of people’s behaviour it will be a sad loss indeed and I hope JK doesn’t get to the point he feels he needs to make this purely a PNE forum. Also why should some people choose to have to take a sabbatical from the forum because they don’t like other people’s constant misbehaviour. Why should their opinion count any less?