Not many bother with the rules but the bolded bit was in from day 1
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4) There will be some low content PU style thread for everyone to trade insults, attack bad posting etc in the traditional manner. All posters in P, Pv7.0 and other political areas of 2+2 will be deemed fair game unless they opt out. That includes the PU moderators who cannot opt out. There may be some moderation to prevent multiple LC threads covering very similar ground.
There are limits on what is acceptable insults and trolling. Bringing peoples family into it for example.
It was an issue I was aware of because ages ago there was a discussion about it when, I think JJ, said that a moderated politics forum only needed one unchained thread. My view was, and remains, that people can have as many as they like as long as they have some sort of distinction.
I also disagree that the demand was being satisfied with such a large element of irrelevant conversations. People wont carefully wade through 600+ irrelevant posts, mostly of the same old personal battles many are fed up of elsewhere, in the hope of finding the occasional one that may be of some marginal interest.