Ack - you should have posted some kind of warning about where those links lead. Those Winterwind forums are as useless as Mistress and its Lair. Curious to see that Winterwind has more moderators than posters, with the mods being some of IPLY's worst... Shodan, Josan, et al.
I'm kind of sad about IPLY going under and its boards disappearing, but after reading those threads you link to, I don't feel so bad about not having to see so much crap, with the worst of the sewage draining off to the forums mentioned above.
At least I'll keep this gem of game forum wisdom with me and pass it on to my kin through the ages:
"It's not easy to say to someone 'hey man, you kinda hurt my feelings.' Men generally don't say that to each other." - Josan, Shareholder With Hope