@Fooser:
I don't know what you wrote, so i can't say something certin. I only can assume that that what you call "unserious" was not clearly for everyone unserious. At least Arien didn't identify it as unserious. You exspected what you write as unserious but in that matter Arien read it but didn't got the hint that it was meant unserious.
Maybe a

or a j/k would prevent this edit. As i said, i'm just assuming.
About the leet posts in the
newbie board. I don't see the big damage from those posts. Its as the name said the
newbie board. You should not exspect all the best in that board. And there the "morons" are only the new players that have to learn. But we all started at any point, didn't we?
@Aegohl:
I'm disappointed from the way you speak after all from the Illarion staff. The "red/yellow" dot action was no fiasco. It was a test. Everyone who took part in learned from it. The staff as well as the players.
You see everything we do as actions to torture the players. But lets take the matter of the dots. In the time before that "test" some players as well as staff members complained that the tone on the forum wents out of order. So we tried to give a some moderators some more power over the off-topic board in special. Trying to get the tone into order again. The responce of the community was clear i think.

So it got disabled and right after the tone got much better. So i can't see what was "bad" at the dots all in all
About the second part you wrote. I can say that we all know that we are a part of that community. But you should not forget that this community is still about a game. And we try to keep it working. That is the difference and this that difference we have to act in a slightly different way.
I wouldn't like to see some flaming so much without some staff members stopping them that everyone else leaves. And to be honest i dare this from some members of our community.
Nitram