I noticed OP didn't mention the members that are allowed to call themselves the "Elitist Prick's Club" that go around giving everyone bad reps and pretty much spamming their thread if they don't like it. Why the TWI development team allows that and the implementation of this rep. bar mod on their vBulletion forum is beyond my understanding. It has been pretty common knowledge on other gaming forums that the TWI forums aren't very friendly.
In all honesty, man, your track record in the "kindness" category isn't great on these forums either. I'm just saying this sounds pretty damn hypocritical coming from you.
I agree that the statements quoted in the OP are completely out of line, regardless of the context and no matter how "dumb" the post might be. If it's spam, let the forum moderators handle it.
Of course it would be nice if people put some thought into their posts before putting them out there on the world wide web. But we have to accept that, as a community of a game that is about to attract a much larger audience than in the past, we are going to see alot more new comers on these forums.
We have to change our mindset as a tiny community of loyal followers to a larger community for a much larger game. This doesn't mean compromising our values -- simply being more tolerant and respectful of the many different kinds of people that will be eventually posting here.