I agree that overly strict rules can be negative. Players might feel unconfortable and avoid the forum. This would go against the informational purpose the forum has.
However, there are some well constructed posts that further off-topicness and pointlessness. And I agree that such posts should be deleted. I\'m not claiming the posts you\'ve seen being deleted were fairly deleted, I\'m just saying Aendar might have seen them as negative in this way.
As far as roleplaying and reputation are concerned: I believe the Guild Forum should have hints and traces of those two.
However it looks like it\'s currently used as an important stage for building reputation and for roleplaying, in degradation of the Roleplay Forum, the guilds\' own forums and the game client itself.
Yes, yes, I know I\'m a culprit as well in this.
Congratulations Karyuu.