Yeah, it's a lengthy story indeed. Now, the reason we Link mains on AiB don't want the metagame to develop on SWF is because if it did, nothing would change. The policies would remain the same, the rules would remain the same, and the Link boards would still be oppressed. I can name countless active threads that are about specific people - are they closed? No; the admins legitimately just hate the old Links. One user was permabanned....in the midst of already being banned. When he went to Forum Disputes, he was flamed by the admins. Another user was banned for a single post. Buzz even tried to get us kicked off the AiB Link boards - he said he's going to talk to neal about how out of control we are, and now we're being watched thanks to him.
Looking at the situation from our standpoint, it looks the same. Havokk is running a dictatorship, tick him off and boom, infraction. In a free spirited community, that just doesn't work. Havokk never really liked us to begin with, because he'd post and make topics that were old at the time.
"Ways to easily set up jab locks" - it was known.
"The BACL" - probably one of his few legit threads.
"DACIT == bombslide" - ok, so he gave a new name to bombsliding. Big deal. It was considered spam and closed.
I mean really, he got ticked at us for that and left. Well, what were we supposed to do, those threads weren't exactly productive.
In short, the old Links are waiting for a mod who can let them be as they are now, which basically means let them have a tier list thread, since all the other threads they have are legal. And the rules state "a thread about an individual is not allowed." It never says anything about a thread being about a group or community as a whole.