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There’s no invisible text there; you just need to think... Yes, there’s allowed some off-topic discussions and so on within the Heroes forum, i.e., letter by letter... you can create any topics. But you need to stick to the topic name and the meaning of the first post. And if you don’t ban users for swearing, no matter what section (and they found some veteran of three wars and five revolutions, who’s only been on the forum for a week), then you might as well close the forum altogether, because such permissiveness doesn’t lead to anything good.
With the same logic, you could say, "the forum should be closed if the rules are defined too vaguely and can be interpreted in different ways – this doesn’t lead to anything good." By the way, I’m speaking based on my own experience. On one of these forums, the moderators, under the same pretext, simply violated the rules. To avoid any doubt, I’ll describe the situation: the forum prohibits insults. Simple and clear, right? And then, one person called another a "charlatan-theorist." A rather dubious insult, but still, it’s an insult. In response, the offended person unleashed a torrent of the most vile curses (which, by the way, is also prohibited). The first person was banned, and the second didn’t even receive a warning. I can only add that, by a strange coincidence, the second person was friends with 2 out of 3 moderators of the section. I think no further comments are needed. And there, they said exactly the same thing, that "you shouldn’t take the rules literally," "you need to be able to think for yourself, not read everything letter by letter," and so on. After this incident, I have a very strong negative reaction when forum moderation involves a double standard in interpreting the rules.