I begged Cry-Adam to ban the flamers on this forum. Saying you're pissed and here's why is one thing, but the hate spewed on this forum has gotten way out of hand. Attacking people is the thing that bugs me the most in other words. Sticking to working out the issues without making it personal will serve us all well.
As for what Aviyur said, I think a great forum feature is to show similar posts to people making new threads so that they don't duplicate something that someone has already addressed. The Rockerteam forum has that feature and it seems to have kept their forum relatively uncluttered.
Thread being closed for obvious reasons. Users get banned when they openly flame and swear in posts, regardless of how valid a point they may have. We also close threads that we see as duplicates of a much more useful thread on the same topic.
These forums are used to gather user feedback for future fixes, and to try to help people in the mean time with work arounds and information, threads like this just mean instead of trying to do that we need to spend time removing posts and moderating more which is not beneficial to anyone.