Maybe someone can enlighten me.

@abnerjack 

I can’t imagine that this forum makes a lot of money.  Perhaps the guests at a dinner party analogy, think of this place as a barely solvent convenience store, prone to attracting trouble making teenagers that scare away cash spending customers.  The management of the store has the right to hustle potential trouble makers along, because it’s their shop.

   If you need to discuss politics with every breath you take, or twitch of your typing fingers, there are are approximately 18 billion other sites where you can spend all day arguing with total strangers .  If you want to discuss audio issues, your choices are limited 

@mahler123 

Well now, see, the right of a shopowner to discriminate against certain people is somewhat controversial (carefully not taking a side here). Which brings me back to my original point, which is to just post the rules, whatever you want them to be.  Eliminates the ambiguity, and makes people feel less discriminated against.  I say we vote!  And anyone in Chicago gets two!

The environment as a whole  is so toxic these days that can’t blame any business for wanting to steer clear 100%. That would include publishing rules that may tick people off right off the bat.  They have every right to do what’s best for business 
 

Sad but that is where we are these days.  We including businesses like agon are all the victims.   Hopefully we find a way to reduce the level of toxicity and find common ground to be more United rather than more  reasons to not even be able to have a discussion about things that matter to everyone, not just hifi enthusiasts. 
 

Meanwhile everyone is still free to make their own decisions regarding where they hang out or not and why. 

@mapman 

That seems a bit of a cop out.  It would be very easy to draft language, so to the moderators: I hereby volunteer.  Let me know if you’d like me to take a stab at it.  I’d be happy to draft alternative versions, from less flexible to more.  Just let me know.

mdalton

... my original point, which is to just post the rules, whatever you want them to be ...

They have done exactly that. You don't seem to like the rules.