Two things:

1. Lock/readonly all existing posts, so people will not be trying to revive dead/non existing issues for ARR. If any old issues still exists, those concerned should make new posts instead.

2. Unban all the members who are currently banned, and mod the forum source code to add a new "user voted ban" feature.

This feature should allows the forum users to vote which users to ban, and it will work like a counter of the likes/forum posts we have. Once a given user reaches a set limit (1k, 5k, etc), temp ban/permban kicks into effect. To prevent abuse, allow only one vote to be cast to any given member.

This should help the new forum to remove many of the existing troll posters that does nothing but create flaming threads that causes other members to get banned.

jc