This was started as an open forum, and the rules were non existent, then it grew, and it attracted idiots who abused the free and open nature of the site. Rules had to be made to deal with the idiots, and as the number of idiots grew so did the rules.
One of the biggest idiots is now conducting a self defeating campaign for no deletions or moderation, like it used to be, [apparently].
I can see him as a midwife, busily trying to push a baby back up some poor woman's birth canal.
Giok