> And do I seriously have to agree to the so-called "terms" every time I'm at a new forum for the first time?

< General rule #5:
< All serious complaints about staff or users should not be
< publically posted by members.

So non serious complaints about staff are OK then?

RSC is the only racing forum I know of that uses a public warning
system, with their yellow and red card system, branding their
members with the equivalent of a forum "Scarlet Letter" by having
a warning icon avatar added to every post ever made by the victim
member.