@Apple: Like I said, don't let one or two people ruin the whole thing for you. I know you dislike how the mods do things sometimes, and sometimes I agree with you, but honestly, other than that I don't really have any gripes about this site. It's too useful and too entertaining for me to abandon just because of a handful of incidents like this. The other thing is that I really don't see the point in evacuating over this. Yes, I think the mods made a bad call, but I honestly don't see any other reason to leave this forum other than one or two questionable bannings, and their ultimatum to the thread to stay on topic.
I'd also like to note that I've been fairly active in other parts of the forum (or at least lurking), and the mods put up with
tremendous amounts of BS on a regular basis, so I can understand why they might be cheesed off at some of the drama and not want to deal with it. I'm not saying it justifies a "ban first, ask questions later" mentality, but I can see why they would react negatively to a whole thread's worth of people coming out of the woodwork to protest a ban that was unrelated to the thread in question.
But we should probably get onto another topic. Discussing this at length really isn't going to help anyway.
edited 19th Aug '12 9:07:23 PM by JapaneseTeeth