outlaw: Since you're asking for honesty, this was the only thing I was gonna suggest. That maybe staff attitudes to criticism oughta change. Everything else is good. Great updates being done.
What I don't understand is, user feedback is overwhelmingly positive. Yet staff members these days are acting like there is some kind of crisis going on, some kind of conspiracy to destroy 2wap with "negative remarks". So much so that you guys feel the need to add these little notes to your topics to avoid what you call "insulting and off-topic comments".
It seems like long ago some mod or admin thought it'd be a good idea to write such warnings in their topic as a kind of mantra to ward off evil spirits, and it sort of became part of the culture. I agree it's something that needs to be cut out as it implies the expectation of negative posts, which isn't cool.