There is a whole movement on this board to silence people via ignore and constant reporting that's coordinated off the board that was culminated in putting the CE board beyond a paywall where it's now essentially an echo chamber. And that's what this group was demanding, and of course it was handed to them.
As ridiculous as that all is...the best part is it's perpetrated by people who will tell you straight faced that they are the ones being silenced and cancelled.
Let's also be real that it's about 4-5 posters that cause the problems, we all know who they are, and that if the rules were enforced against them, everyone on this board would get along much better regardless of politics. Most of these 4-5 troll on sports related topics as well, one is a big Schiano hater, another a Pickiell hater.
Unless and until that issue is addressed it's going to get worse. And that's actually the same national issue when you have people in thrall of a cult who just promote victimization rather than policy. It was rejected at the ballot box but it festers elsewhere.