I feel like there's no winning with the censorial people. They try to suggest "helpful" compromises but it just poisons the site.
In the DAV thread, the same users complaining about too much DEI talk in the OT made general remarks to the effect "DEI is all Dpad talks about". A quick glance at the first page in Gaming shows that to be untrue, but what happens when we split off all the DEI discussion into their own threads? What impression does that give to our totally-neutral observers?
Wouldn't splitting DEI talks (or other "not game related" talks only strengthen their impression that all Dpad talks about is DEI stuff? Instead of keeping these concerns contained in each game's thread, now we have to use a separate thread for that kind of discussion, multiplying the number of DEI threads and strengthening the impression that all we talk about is DEI.
I see no reason to adjust the site for people who left in a huff. I know full well that the mods have a delicate, imperfect balance to maintain as they run the site. But that doesn't mean that we have to implement ideas that don't work.