I don't think the forums should be closed but I agree with your assessment super_etecoon. The temporary bannings have no effect and the forum abusers and trolls continually test the limits again and again. It appears that there are an infinite amount of second chances. Now I mainly come to this site for the numbers and when I occasionally try to read through the forums it feels like very little has changed. Conversation often degrades into what you describe as a "pissing contest"
Although I have to say the forums are the exception to the rule, and the rest of VGchartz.com, particularly the numbers and charts are very useful and have shown constant improvement. If more numbers and better accuracy means the forums suffer for now, I'll take it.
