I couldn't agree more Ima. I was a regular poster and thoroughly enjoyed the banter, the arguments and the friendliness displayed by so many. I was also somewhat bothered by some of the flaming and griefing and the intense dishonesty of many of the posters, but learned to live with it. Then came the indiscriminate policing, the meaningless shutting down of some excellent threads, the obsessive posters and, finally, the shutdown of the forums to introduce new software.
When the forums closed down for the new format, I looked forward to their return. What returned, though, was a dull, soulless dirge, and I pretty well withdrew, as did many others. Now I seldom look into the forums, apart from a friendly thread started by one of my favourite forumites.
So I've mainly moved on. There is still one forum poster who is regularly unpleasant to me, but I've learned just to ignore that person.
And there's still some sensible forumites posting. I'm looking at one right now.