<S> Cap1, but ....... Third party effort is required to make, and maintain the rules, and effort on the part of every player to learn the rules. Also lot's dissatisfaction, becasue the 'rules' apply to everyone, and one-size-fits-all means the size really fits no one. With squelch I'm 100% satisfied, every time, and no effort is expended or required by anyone else.
I think that's actually easier.
It is easier, as long as there are relatively few imbeciles spewing their tripe. However, consider the amount of time you'd spend squelching dolts if it were not against the rules and everybody who felt so inclined was espousing their wonderful views on how the freemasons, gays, Bush, JFK, and Zombie Elvis were behind 9/11 and the fluoridation of drinking water to allow our mind control by a secret cabal of Swedish bikini models bent on world domination. It'd be far easier to just detune 200.
What is better? To have some rules that takes a little bit of enforcement that make 200 at least somewhat useful/entertaining, or to have no rules and have 200 turn moreso into a soapbox forum for people to blather about stuff that has nothing to do with the game?
Incidentally, where ARE the channel rules posted? I haven't been able to find them on the website.
Wiley.