The problem with FE Forum, in my humble opinion, is that there are far too many posters there who don't share the fundamental outlook 90% of us have on the crisis. There are some, to be sure, like Tele, but not a majority by any means.
There also seems to be a large contingent of youth there, which is fine, but it seemed to me to be a large number of immature youth.
It basically had the feel of CAF Trad section. Except at CAF you had a bunch of Novus Ordites getting into it with Traditionalists. At FE it seemed , at least by '09, a bunch of Novus Ordite liberals who happened to prefer the TLM getting into it with Trads. Again, not everyone but a lot of them.
This creates an environment where people like us have to spend a lot of time on the FE thread responding to a lot of liberal and/ or inane commentary, some intentionally meant to derail threads, which is frustrating and counterproductive.
It must be said that the choices of who to ban, by their nature have contributed to the types of posters who remain. There are still some good ones left but the numbers are so stacked against our mindset posting there starts to become futile. Then you have to contend with the trolls and unscrupulous posters who take ad hominem shots etc.
Obviously the owners can ban who they will, yet look at the mindset of those chosen. Matthew, Caminus, Gladius, Belloc, probably a lot more I haven't mentioned. Though none of us agree 100% the areas of discussion here are such that they are productive for us. For instance we aren't wasting page after page wondering if death metal or Life-Teen Masses are Catholic.
And this is why it is a blessing in diguise we all ended up here. At FE it seems we would all be hopelessly trying to convince the immature, the insincere, the Neo-Trad, and the liberal of the obvious.