The I/P forum was totally hamstrung and some members were given the idea that they could spam and get away with it. Here's the thing. The spammers were on both sides of the divide, just like flaca and coyote are on both sides of the political divide, so overall, it was discussion that was being throttled by purposeful acts that ended up with issues of moderation that were not at all moderate.
Now the original premise given for those 'moves' in the I/P forum and the creation of "Sticky Posts" to move posts into, was to make discussion more moderate.
And it ended shutting discussion down and turning it into an anger based forum with spam being the rule of the day, because people were not allowed to use free speech, it was being moderated much like Political Correctness was used as the same form of strategy.
Spam was wanted, not ideals.