They could have left gaming and off topic alone, and given you guys the tools to actually moderate again. The mute function was a broken function from its inception. The problem wasn't just isolated to these "alt" accounts with no destiny account attached to it. There are thousands, if not close to a million, spam, flaming, naming and shaming, off topic, porn, and other against the COC related threads in the destiny forum. They stay there even with this new "rule set" it won't change. The only way to actually change it would be to enforce the rules with moderation.