The whole 'fishing forum ads' swear filter is a tad annoying, I've had a PM about B - S - A and I was wondering wtf was going on.
Personally I think censorship of another sites initials is going a touch far.

As far as the closed shop thing, are we talking about the recent decision to clamp down on the classified section? if so I have to agree something had to be done their were bare faced con merchants taking advantage, I'm not sure about how they have locked it up but it's their forum they pull the shots.

Just changed it Jer so its back to normal,something happened on here the last few days which i'll not mention that's why i changed the b.s.a forum word to a censored one i also censored another forum which is also now unblocked.

As for the above in bold,that's what i was on about Jer,like you say its the lads who run it at the end of the day it's their forum,their rules sometimes it may pay to leave small portions of sites open kinda like a golden carrot to attract members to join and view more stuff but i agree the ads section did seem to be getting abused a little on the site mentioned.