I will say, on the forums topic, there does seem to be an awful lot of repeat posts/topics. Doesn't really bother me much, but does get a little tiresome to see the recent post list filled with stuff like that.

im usually on, but have it in the background

I spend sometimes to much time on this site and sometimes I do not log in for days

Forums

• Fewer interesting topics and threads/posts that are well thought out. Lots of redundant threads.
• Too many people stick to PR talking points and don't want to critically look at issues. 
• Blatant trolls and fanboys that do nothing but stir the pot to rile people up.
• Duplicate threads. Any large news story is bound to have 3-5+ threads, some which take forever to get locked.
• Too many Rol impersonators. 
• People don't want to actually discuss games and gameplay. Not just gameplay, but genre conventions, trends, and honest discussion about game problems. It's annoying when people declare some highly rated game as perfection and want it to end there. 

Site

• Becoming more and more of a generic, dime a dozen gaming site. I know VGC isn't just a numbers site anymore, but I would say the numbers provided here have taken the back burner to other areas such as reviews and news. There's nothing inherently wrong with reviews and news, but EVERY gaming site does those, but no virtually no other site provide sales numbers. I wish VGC would bring the numbers side to the forefront again, making a particular effort to improve site perception and tracking accuracy.
• Very little interesting original content. Maybe I'm the only one tired of top 10 lists.

Based on this list you might think I hate this site. That's really not the case. It's just not what it once was, though that may be partially a matter of my tastes changing.

Though I have to be honest in response, I think setting a double-standard for moderation is a bad idea. A rule is there to be followed by everyone, not just those who've been here less than 2 months, less than 100 posts, or whatever. Doing such a thing might lead to some of the regulars thinking they're above the rules, which will be more akin to anarchy, and then the mods would serve no point at all. (And I've seen a forum that was essentially unmoderated- it was a disaster. It was much worse than 4chan, if that tells you anything.)

Conversely, the new members will see that people are doing X thing, and when they do X, they get warned or banned. Yet regular Z keeps doing that, without ever getting banned. This may lead new members to thinking that we're into favortism and unfair modding, or, worse still, we're all an inbred group, unwelcoming to new people, and cause them to leave, giving us an ice-cold reputation in the meanwhile. For growing the site, that would be a very bad idea.

Okay, seriously man, Anarchy?

I was a moderator once, and I know all about it. There are some regular members who can be a pain in the ass, and should be banned accordingly. But they shouldn't be banned for minor things while random new accounts sprout up all the time and start trouble (and of course, they're hard to notice since they have no avatar). If someone joins the site and is already trying to start up fights and troll, then they should be looked after heavily. And we need more fun threads and less bad jokes. Okay, my complaints are done then.

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Yes, lately I've been posting too much

Intelligent members with perfectly reasonably posts get banned because they use the word "fanboy".

I really think that the rules against flaming need to be relaxed. And ideally, we shouldn't ban people for threads that are clearly jokes because a few members took those jokes seriously. I mean, nobody who has been here more than a week thinks Squilliam is being serious when he trolls the PS3...

This is basically what I was getting at.

Like elitist-forum-that-hates-us, but not quite so extreme.