The rule change is weird. Either the mods don't want to do their jobs or they are encouraging flaming on the site, which will probably end up driving away some of the real posters on this board who joined to talk about politics and current issues. The flamer zone is definitely more trouble than it's worth. There are really only a few people who post there regularly and they aren't really valuable contributors to the board overall but are a bunch of old people who get their kicks acting like 10-year-old little boys.