Your other account was banned because you don't know how cookies work. I'm speaking from experience here, I used to flame people all the time on bungie.old and I only got banned like 3 times, all of them temporary. In practice, this forum isn't any more chaotic than it was when the rules were in place. As time went on after Reach was released, there was a noticeable drop in activity, which was largely the reason that the mods got so lax. Look at the archives on the old flood, drama threads still existed, political/religion threads still existed, and flaming was pretty commonplace. The only difference was that they got locked after 10 or so pages.