I have participated in forums with no limits on content; two problems I encountered are:
1. Lack of population, which equals predictability of regulars.
2. Some people really enjoy being rude to each other, I usually find that repulsive.
The best of the BY provided great debate on interesting subjects, unfortunately the growing population of the forums added more users to the BY & they seemed to have the effect of adding to the already existent to some extend element of immaturity, which turned into an enormous amount of hard work in the mod's courthouse.
I found participating in the BY forum furthered my education in human nature.
It was so interesting watching religion (belief without proof/logic) fighting with science (which has no means to deal with anything that can't be objectified & measured). The tail chasing of those two can be wonderfully entertaining & educational with the right participants.
