[Question] Did this just happen?

[Zise]

Well this is because people are harming the whole community, and we simply don't have enough people working on the site to maintain it. It's been a free site, but you kind of had this to the option of shutting the whole site down. We are working for free, and we get to take a enormous amount of threats and we get flamed on a daily basis. And we just want to let you know that we have worked for years to build NB to what it is. And since people won't stop this nonsense we saw no other way.

I suggest you guys start to follow the rules if you want to stay on the site. We don't know how long we will keep registration down, but it will probably be for quite some time, so get used to it.

 

[Rei]

Just wanted to add something to Zise's reply.

We have reached the point that we are more concerned with the quality of the discussions than with the quantity of them. This is what we have been working for for the last 5 years. Now it is the time to closely moderate the forums in order to ensure that this is a community that we can all enjoy being part of, free of trolls, alts and spam, and to reflect and work on our future plans.

It is a temporary measure as V mentioned in his announcement so there's no reason for a fuss about it. Most of you that called this an idiotic idea or posted that you can't understand why we are doing this are the same people that have been complaining non stop lately over repetitive threads, personal insults from other members, low quality of discussions and trolls.

We take NB seriously and we believe our decision to be the right one given the circumstances. If nothing else, now we all got the time to get to know each other a bit better.

Cheers!