I personally believe that forum access should be tied to subscription status. However, that idea was unanimously decried by the community (see my thread in the wish list forum).
Considering that, the community isn't really upset about ex-subscribers that post (otherwise they would have supported the idea), they simply don't like people that disagree with them, a majority going so far as to promote or even request said dissenters be banned. Ironic, considering they can't figure out why new players don't want to stay.
Not quite.
Whether you're a paying customer or not, nearly all commentary is useful in some way.
At first.
So everyone now knows that the 12-hour rule, the HQ vulnerability problem, the ENY is unfair issue, the inferior graphics, the two-weeks-free-is-not-enough, the bailing bombers, the hostile community, the lack of fighting spirit, all of these things are destroying AH. Fine. Might be true. Might be fixable, might not. What can be changed, will be changed, if not now then when AH3 comes out.
But we don't need to hear it over and over and over again, ESPECIALLY from people who no longer have skin in the game. It's become like having a nagging wife chained to your wrist with some folks (looks at Vraciu). We get it. We don't need to keep hearing it.
- oldman