Any forum with the goal of being a meeting place for people with a common interest will get out of hand without limitations of scope.
Some may from time to time feel the rules or moderation heavy-handed in forums with set topic. But, how good or bad it is reflects in the number of active users.
As I understand it one fundamental thought was to keep this forum clean from whiny quitting posts and nagging about other mmorgs. So, now we can look around and ask ourselves, is this a successful
EU-forum or not? if it is successful why try to change the fundament?