Forums are designed to be like this. Inadvertent design perhaps, but that's why they are like this.

EVE forums follow the standard 1990's design, that you can see the bones of in other old MMOs, like Runescape.

What happens is the forums are seen as a shop front, and that shop front has to be shiny all the time, so as to give a good impression.

I suspect someone in Marketing came up with this idea.

Forums are not shop fronts, forums are organic wild places.

So what happens next is some forum policing is created, in order to maintain the shop front.

Then you end up with forums pages that are full of locked and moved threads. People being banned and so forth.

Which is the exact opposite of what the intent is, but is what the design does.

A lot of the policing is negative. We get the ability to Like posts but that's about the only positive thing on forums. So people aren't rewarded for being positive, we are rewarded for negative behaviours. The most ironic being, becoming a forum police officer, not sure if that happens with EVE forums, but it seems common practice to reward policing behaviours of others.

Then someone comes along and invents a more flexible forum that allows creativity and, bingo, everyone goes there to talk.

Then the game makers follow.

It removes the whole pressure from game makers of that silly idea of maintaining a tidy shop front.

Which is why social media has taken over as the important forums .

Things would be different with different forum design, but that would take more money, and that would take more time, and have you seen how fervent players can get? They scary.

It's much easier to handball the talking to players bit to someone else, and sort of limp along with old forums as a tradition.

We can just dismiss the forum goers as bitter vets and let them play with each other, it keeps them distracted.

Personally. I love forums, it's where I spend most of my game time in any game. They are intense and interesting dimensions.