You need to consider, do you want this to be a community or not? If these forums are meant to be somewhere where people with a common interest can foregather and feel relaxed, and in good company, then you have to accept that sometimes people want to discuss other issues with the friends they have here. The alternative is a site where no-one has any personal investment and is nothing but a glorified look-up table of technical questions. In which case people will get bored, and not stay to answer technical questions either, and the whole place will wither. Really, I do think this matter has not been handled very sensibly. As Ironbear says, it doesn't seem to be a problem on other sites to have an OT forum; why should Renderosity be so very different?