the following from xianti and jyms do a good job of explaining the situation. Thanks to you both for posting.

I'm pretty sure there is a general consensus about how this was handled, people do make mistakes - we're human. That the mistake has been acknowledged is a good thing - props to rilla for this. Gotta be feeling kinda stink if you were IOPQ right now = I'm sure any similar situations will be better handled in future.

Quote Originally Posted by Xianti
Posting nonsense in the Community forum is not even an issue here. A lot of good posters had stopped posting and/or reading the strategy forums because of iopq. It's my sincere hope that the quality posters who had had enough of iopq and simply stayed away will return to become active with good, quality content once again.
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Quote Originally Posted by jyms
Oskar, incase you haven't noticed, there are but 4 or 5 regular posters in the SHNL forum now, both mods (renton and Nutsinho) do not post in there anymore. There is max 3 or 4 posts a day and usually by the same person with multiple hands.

Most of the regulars around here are having conversations in other avenues to avoid posting in this forum. The mod forum has been abuzz and we have talked to plenty of others about this problem in several threads over several months. We have a history of conversation that will not be posted here. IOPQ was the problem and Rilla decided that the forum was pretty much losing it's luster because of him, as told by plenty of us to him and Xianti. FTR was tired of the direction it was going in and wants it's best players/posters to come back to the forum to increase the quality content. this is Xianti's forum, we mod it and the conversation to make the change was pretty much unanimous to rid the forum of him, some didn't want it done this way but still wanted him out.
this is interesting. Snowball effect etc, like, i'd started doing more discussion of hand histories outside the forum - not cos of iopq directly, but because it seemed like the input here was getting kinda thin. I hadn't gone down the "I wonder why?" path.