That's what I'm saying, I don't go. I don't know if that holds true as to whether or not they are intentionally making it a bad place or not, but it sure has seemed like it at times.
I know Flak personally, and to imply that she is intentionally making the Epic Forums a bad place is actually quite offensive to me.
If others feel at home there, that's fine, that's their discretion. After the Atari forums closed & migrated there it just wasn't the same any more. It seemed like it changed for the worse, not just to me, but a great many.
Despite the fact that I frequented neither ina-community, Atari, nor Epic Forums all that much, I think it is pretty obvious that Epic's forums are a much better place to be. Some threads get closed that shouldn't be, but the point is that threads get closed. Some of the posts on ina/atari were so ridiculously inflammatory that they should have been deleted... yet they often stayed open for months before anyone did anything about them.
It doesn't really matter much how you think they should run their forums. Epic's forums are theirs. They make the rules, and they also realize that people will be visiting there who don't have time to wade through 800 threads on the same subject, nor want to wade through 800 threads that have no point other than to rage and cry about how Epic doesn't treat each individual customer of theirs like they are the most important person in the universe.
Having moderated these forums, which are much less busy than Epic's forums, I neither envy Flak's job nor blame her for the way she moderates over there. Having seen some of the threads that get axed over there, I often have to ask myself whether people actually know what they are doing when they post things on the internet. Surely the answer is that, in general, they don't.
It all boils down to, if you don't like a place, don't visit there. Nobody at Epic is forcing you to view their forums, but it seems like common courtesy to respect the way they choose to run them.