My point is that the forums are more easily regulated than the IRC, and are a better place for communicating and welcoming new players, old players, etc., - and yet the forums are what's under fire here, unjustly, while the IRC is held up as some bizarre gold standard.
No, it isn't, at least not by me. But the forums I control. IRC I don't. So how exactly would I shut down an IRC channel? Can't.
