Look this isn't rocket science this is a Syracuse sports message board.
Too many people take this too seriously. Including me sometimes. It's a joke that "good posters" PM the admins about another poster's behavior and leave the board. I used to be a gnat, and opened myself up to a lot of "battles" with some oldies, but goodies. I got attacked a lot, and often it was my fault. I maybe PMed an admin once, after multiple attempts to deal "directly" with some egregious attacks on this board were not successful. It's a joke that the whole board gets smacked down with rules that are honestly open to different interpretations, and the reasons given are a non-specific retelling of an unknown "good posters" butt hurt. I've been in chat rooms with the "good posters" crowd. There is some good stuff, but it is a bit of a circle jerk. I didn't come here just to read one anointed person's thoughts.
At the same time, there is a lot of repetitive garbage, seemingly directly to another person. I'm not so uptight that I do not see the attempted sarcastic and slapstick humor. But honestly, PM each other. Note, I feel the same about the praising of certain posters. If you have anything to say directly about anyone, just PM them.
Page loads here are slow. Too many ads. Without thread view, I have little recourse, but to wait it out, and muddle through, when I accidentally click into one of these repetitive inside jokes.
We all have personal reasons why we ended up here. So, we all have things we want from the board. I am not sure there is one common reason. I never ran from the "kiddie board". I checked this out because somebody on the kiddie board advertised it. The people here were/are either insightful or funny. So, I stayed. I didn't stay solely because of Jake's post about basketball, or JerseyOrange's posts about football, or Millhouse's hilarity, or repartes with Kaiser/Go, or the tailgates, or the cool, fresh ideas from new posters. I stayed for all of these reasons. IMO, with too many rules, you risk stifling the creative side of the board.
There is too much butt hurt, butt kissing, and deputy admining here. Skip the stuff you do not like. It's easier in thread view, but still not that hard. It's not rocket science.