Originally Posted by The Batlord

As per widespread forum discussion in the last few years members vocalized a desire for an anything-goes-within-reason environment, citing established members enjoying good fun ****-talking. There were those who opposed, saying in order to entice new members to stay there needed to be some sense of structure and The Rules must be consistently applied to everyone, and the kind of ****-talking going on was simply not a good look for the forum. Those people were told that they were the minority and if they didnt like it here they could leave, so a handful of members left and MB continued to mature into the paradise of comedy you see now. Every ban was scrutinized and members expected to be a part of the decision making process in terms of discipline. I dont know of anyone except JWB that has been permabanned since. So in other words, the people spoke and the mods (at the time) listened, and now we get to deal with Chula's monthlies.