You're completely correct in your assessment of the MO forums, Ariel. Anyone with half a brain who used to frequent MOFO has already made a break for the exit; Mortal Online will become just another 1v1 dueling MMO as the community has been effectively put to rest over the course of the last 3 months or so.

Where Aventurine had trouble keeping the fanbois on a leash in forumfall, Starvault in its infinite wisdom decided to actually put a few fanbois in charge of their forum as well as their official IRC channel. As a direct result more knob polishing fanbois in IRC cajole mods like StJudas (!) / Syche and Duce (!) / themizh into enforcing forum and IRC rules ('religion and racism/facism' as well as forum etiquette) haphazardly with only a token effort (if any) to explain why posts have been deleted. Thou shalt not criticize those in charge, nor expect them to be forthcoming with changes in rule enforcement!

If I wanted to enroll in grade school again, I'd rather walk 2 blocks than spend a monthly subscription :D Oh well, back to EvE again I guess (or Alganon, who DO grok the concept of communities making or breaking an MMO ^^).