I do definitely agree on the idea of having as few rules as possible. The more rules you have the more people will fear saying something, even if it doesn't violate the rules. Again, some of the Bleach forums try to keep the peace, but they end up having rules I wonder if I'm breaking. Then there's always the special cases who seem to get a million warnings before they're (temporarily) booted.

I think my reference previously to keeping out the riff raff was more concerning with making sure people don't feed into it. It's just more of a common sense kind of thing, but it gets complicated when you try to invoke a common sense or golden rule kind of a set up, because what's apparent to some people isn't apparent to others.

The only thing at concerns me is the shipping half. Maybe it's just me losing my faith in people being able to be decent about this sort of thing, but there does tend to be a mutual tendency on both sides of the "main ships" to kinda gloat that a certain moment fails to meet fan expectations. I think a good shipping rule would be: talk about your ship, or if you're going to talk about an opposing one, be constructive and listen to what they have to say. If it gets to hairy, just agree to disagree. I think if people come at it without feeling like they have to win or prove that their ship is better, it may be easier to discuss things most people don't want to discuss.

I would also love maybe a weekly (or bi-weekly) character discussion. The character comms are generally pretty dead or a little too shippy and mostly filled with fanwork, and there are so many great characters in this story to discuss or even just learn about without having to profess your love for them. I don't like Gin like a lot of the fangirls do, but I'll be damned if he isn't one interesting guy. (Same thing goes for Tousen after the Pendulum Arc.)