We do pay the bills. More as human batteries than shareholders in a company, though. It's why I've pointed out the uniquely adversarial relationship that this game has, between it's players and developers. Most good business practices involve a high degree of being reactive to consumer complaints. Because complaints are suppressed rather than explored, I'm guessing that there isn't intent to change the model. Otherwise we'd be hearing more "whoa, hang on we're working on a, b and c to address x, y and z so your complaints are either baseless or being addressed." Rather than just being censored.
It seems that airing questions/concerns is well within the community guidelines. If it's necessary to overly censor complaint, doesn't that just confirm the issue is striking some chord?
Overall it's counterproductive to do so. The "majority" of noobs don't even check forums, unless it's quick searching a issue. They certainly don't spend enough time on them to get meaningfully involved in conversations. The people that do, I argue, are the dedicated player base, who probably have a good deal of time and money invested here, so intuitively would be the ones I'd really be listening to.
Oh well, I guess the "naysayers" will probably just get censored and/or banned.



