Isn't the point of AB the opposite of these forums?
Without absolute freedom, what's the point?
Discussing other members, yourself, topics you'd rather discuss with anonymity, anything not involving being a total unnecessary twat?
Again, it's either have it slightly moderated in some way to help prevent shit resulting in it just being taken down again, or simply keeping it down. Or at least that's how I'm assuming it's going to be. I'm sure you would rather have that than absolutely no ab. If it were moderated by admins it obviously wouldn't be moderated nearly as much as these forums are. It's not like every thread with the slightest show of aggression or negativity would be removed. I personally don't like a lot of shit that was posted on ab but it's basically the purpose of the thread. So even with my personal opinion I wouldn't be carried away with removing and managing shit. It would mostly just be to eliminate the more serious offensive threads which result in the community becoming far more aggressive with each other. I can say I have noticed a difference since ab went down. It seems to me at least that people are simply arguing less.
And idc if that's just because you're now deciding to keep negative shit to yourself because you don't want to say it without being offense. Still has the same outcome for the community.