Recently there have been a huge amount of silly threads started in that forum. Threads that SHOULD have been made in the G&N forum. If you make a thread deemed low quality, I will personally close your thread with a link to this announcement thread. Multiple offenses will result in an infraction, and enough infractions will result in a ban as always.
It's still there I believe Stewie, in the navi bar on your profile right above the profile comments (Friends, Blog etc) it should be under the option 'Statistics'.
For those who are unsure what a 'low quality' thread is, generally think of the replies it would receive. If it's a thread like "Coke vs. Pepsi", and 90% of the replies are one sentence answers like "I liek cokez bettur cuz pepsi phailz" then it's going to be deleted, closed or moved. Just because it's general discussion doesn't mean that the quality decreases. We still expect threads to produce meaningful replies.