PI wasn't all bad. There was some decent analysis on there when it was presented very tactfully, and some very good posters. The place was just inconsistently moderated and at times extremely paranoid. Presumably there was a reason for that, but I'm actually surprised that the plan seemed to be to clamp down further on what could be discussed there. I think there's enormous value for a club in an official forum if the club has the stomach for a full and frank discussion with the fans, and given how Gus seems to believe in talking directly to the people (his twitter is very active) I would have thought a revamp of the forum would have loosened the reins somewhat. By the end the moderation team had gone extremely pro everything, there was a ban on subjects like politics and even the off-topic forum was potentially on the chopping block. When it went offline it was a pretty strange place.
