We are working on revising the board rules to better reflect recent events.
I certainly appreciate that we haven't made it crystal clear. We will work that out shortly.

Basically, we think the goofing and banter has gone too far and is distracting from having a guitar forum.

Here's an example of goofing taking over a legitimate thread. In this situation a new guy who has six posts asks a question, and then 4 forum regulars take it over by making jokes. It isn't against the rules, but it isn't helpful either:

http://www.guitartricks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18606

Here is the sort of thing we are thinking about regarding rules:

http://www.vai.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=70

We need some time to decide what specifically we want the rules to be. There are some interesting rules on vai.com about flame-bait, drama, grandstanding, hacK3R text. Read it and you will get an idea of what lengths people might want to go to in rules. Personally, I think a short list of rules stands the best chance of being read by people so I would like something shorter.

For now, my suggestion would be to quit trying to be funny for a while.