iHub has not learnt from the New Coke experience. Business decisions need to be based on EVIDENCE. There is no evidence-based decisionmaking here.. What a competent businessperson would do is to do the experiment; turn some boards into free-fire zones under the new TOS and observe what happens over time to those boards.
That is how a competent business manager would operate.
I think ADVFN/iHub is going to repeat the RagingBull, New Coke, and Anheuser-Busch mistake of not piloting the "new product" on a small sample size before upending the franchise.
If they are wrong, this site will not recover. It will go full-pull on the RagingBull Death March, and very quickly.
Clearly the "management" has no new ideas other than cripplingTOS in a silly attempt to mimic StockTwits et seq.