I'm going to keep this short.
It has come to our attention that some members of the community are unhappy with the way we are administrating this forum.
We encourage the community to post here, and we are much more lenient about where and what people can post than most forums. We respect free speech, and the right of everyone to have a voice. However, there are limits.
We will not allow this forum to become a place where people do not feel welcome because of disgusting, abusive language directed against them predicated on their gender, race, religion, skin colour, sexuality or background.
If anyone has a problem with this, we invite you to say so here and give your reasons. We respect honest, open and intelligent discussion, we do not respect random abuse in the shoutbox. If you want something to change, then give us a good reason to change.
So far we have restrained from implementing hard rules, but this is now under discussion in our private boards in light of recent posting trends.
Finally, a question to those who are currently expressing outrage: do you think we enjoy banning people, editing posts and handing out warnings? The answer is no, we do not. We dislike having to take time from our days to mete out punitive action, and we dislike reading logs of where we are abused because of it. We try to respect and empathise with you, and we ask the same in return.