I made a suggestion for staff to perhaps not be so trigger-happy with locking and was told: "We and the forum staff team reserve the right to moderate our forums as we see fit" and the thread was immediately locked. They say complaints should go on the forums. Therefore, I made the suggestion to see if this style of moderating/attitude could be changed - there was no ability for anyone else to discuss this in any capacity, just "we can do what we want" and that was that. It was very disappointing.
BBCode