These forums have been heading downhill lately, and we're stopping that right now. The new rule #7 is:
7. Do not discuss support rulings of any kind here.
The fundamental problem of running a war game is that conflicts arise all of the time, and each time one does, our support team has to rule on it. When they do, one of the groups involved is going to be unhappy with the result and think the ruling is unfair. Sure enough, a post will end up here on the forums most of the time.
This wouldn't really be a problem except we cannot comment on support rulings to those who aren't involved, including publicly on the forums. We can't tell you why we suspended someone permanently. For instance, we might suspend a player for spamming, but make it permanent due to them having a few previous infractions, but all that ends up on the forum is "they suspended XXX permanently just for spamming." I think that if we could, everyone might not still agree with us, but at least could see our rationale.
So we have to stop the forums from getting ruined by this sort of stuff, and the only option I can see is to not allow it at all. I apologize if these seems like censorship, it's not meant to be. It's just an attempt to keep these forums a useful place for all to exchange information. We've been getting a lot of complaints about the direction of the forums lately, and we're planning on fixing it.
*Edit*
At the suggestion of 2$bill, a special forum has been created called Support Rulings and the rule changed to allow discussing support rulings there only.