Honestly this whole thread seems to be a miscommunication and refusal from both parties to meet halfway.
Yes, you as players have the ability to post almost anything (controversial rule breaking excluded) in the general chat.
Staff have the ability to lock threads to prevent avoidable arguments, pointless revivals or encouragment of spam/duplicate/questionable topics.
If a staff member locks a thread you believe is still relevant, you could start a PM with them, even add a 3rd party for neutral viability and lay out your reasoning in a civilized manner.
Instead, what we end up dealing with is a massive string of people fighting each other on all points, with no one willing to back down, either because they think they're right, they're wrong but have support of others, or even that they're simply stubborn about their choice.
We are here to watch over the community, who share one common interest- Survival Minecraft on the best dam vanilla server out there. We created a forums where those people could talk, and laugh, and learn from eachother. we do our best to keep this forum from turning into utter chaos, and that means sometimes we have to be the bad guys. you dont like it, you may not understand it, you may not even see it as relevant, but that how it is.
Also, my apologies for deleting the thread that this whole thing is about. if i had read more of it id probably have more things to say.