In the past week or 2 it seems like the moderating/adminning has really stepped a lot. However, in certain areas, it feels like a little too much.
I really enjoyed the sort of free, post whatever type forum this was, but I feel certain rules kind of unnecessarily go against this. These include:
The character limit: I can understand why this may be needed in some situations, however I don't see the issue with just a short reply to X subject. The +1 posts are a little strange, but they convey the general idea of the persons thoughts. I don't want to have to post well thought out sentences every time I want to say something, a lot of times a good old "Sounds great, or I would Support this, or +1 works fine. People can mostly distinguish between abusing short posts, and just having a casual conversation.
Suggestion section: The repeat suggestions are annoying, but there is a difference between repeating something a hundred times, and putting a different spin on the idea. Instead of barring all discussion on a topic, maybe give popular ideas, for example vehicles, there own sub-forum. Sometimes just a reply to a thread with a variation of an idea won't really be seen by anyone, and thus get no feedback.
Moving/closing threads: Not a very big issue, however it seems some threads are being moved/closed abruptly for no real reason while there is still discussion that could be going on/correctly placed thread. Anything that has AoS in the OP should probably be in the AoS section, and placed within it's proper forum area such as suggestions/media. Anything that doesn't involve AoS should go elsewhere. However recently it seems topics not exactly related to AoS but generally about the game/ things occurring in the game are being moved to the lounge.
Also, it seems a certain moderator who won't be named has recently been moderating stuff just for the sake of moderating it. IMO there should be a real good reason to edit someones post/close and move a thread.
So yeah, just some opinions on how the moderating here could improve a bit.