rikstaker, maybe I can help clear things up without fanning the flames.
From what I read of your post you were responding to the ideas of removing the rules & help threads and putting all the guides into one stuck thread, to which you were voicing reasoned agreement.
What I believe you may have missed was quoting a post with a link to an image over on photobucket which represented a "redesigned" forum. Across the top was yet another reference to an imbecile's campaign (not referring to Jordy himself but to a banned individual) against Angel. You may have missed some of that crap as those posts were kiboshed as fast as they went up in most cases.
As for the suggestions themselves, I'm pretty sure that the other guide threads are stuck temporarily in order to foster review and critique so that they may be determined worthy/unworthy for inclusion into the permanent guides.
Rules thread? Man it's just the long history of the forum. Whether or not anyone agrees with it, a Paladin outsider was brought in to mod the forum specifically for that reason. Because she was not involved in any internal faldergarb that had gone on. Since there have been a number of issues, a rules thread isn't surprising to have and it's certainly not the only forum to have one.
Help thread? Maybe it's there for the old, "Somebody help me! I made my first Paladin and I can't beat NM Baal! Can someone play with me?" threads.
Now, how about pizza? I prefer sausage, pepperoni and jalapeno peppers on mine. How 'bout you?
*Edit* Good one Playboy, how's the foot feeling?