First, who gives him/her the right for banning certain topics? The action is against the spirit of free speeches. What it has done is to prevent certain information to be exchanged freely within the forum. The action is also very bad to the business of mitbss. mitbss is an eyeball business. The site needs to attract viewers to read and post new information so that mitbss can get money from online advertisors. No one eould send advetising moeny to the site with little viewers and posts. A hot topic is a magnet for mitbss to get more new accounts. The banning on the hot topic would push away those new accounts. If the oncogene cannot handle the flow of information posted, to the best of mitbss business, the correct action is to find someone can handle it. If a company see clicks on their web site explodes, the best action is to deploy more servers to handle the increased load, not to tell viewers that sorry, we would allow limited people to click. I never bother mitbss due to scarce of information. I come here this time is purely for the hot topic.