[Archon_Wing]

If I were to speculate, there is a tendency to make redundant threads that clog up the forum. If you look at general, the same (frequently crappy-- insert moe debate here) topic gets recycled often. There is also a huge tendency for certain undesirable topics (typically shipping) that devolve without fail into pointless shitfests where people flame each other.

Although I tend to support free speech as much as possible, there are just certain topics that almost never lead to anything good and are frequently repetitive. Some forums for example disallow religion debates because of the flammability.

I don't necessarily agree with whatever the reason is or the fact this system exists, but I can see that there a number of legitimate reasons (one including just being too painful to try and moderate) It's also easier to make the rules uniform across all animu subforums for consistency.*

*Cannot speak for this forum, of course. I am just expressing the strength of the current system.