might wanna check out these threads:
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=45509 ;
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=45498
it all started with Sombre getting perma banned for "disregarding the forum rules" which later turned into "he was treated with silk gloves but enough is enough" and than the majority of the community jumped into the thick of things in Sombre's defense, things got quite rough and the mods decided to not let it slide and ban the main "troublemakers" as they(not me) called them, so Maerlande, Frozen Lama and Trumanator were also perma banned. don't think anybody else was, but I do know that Burnsaber also left these forums due to this whole incident, so now the modding forums is missing its 2 main contributors(Sombre and Burnsaber).
for more information hop into our IRC channel, there's still an ongoing discussion about this even now, the ripples of it just won't die...