Except that the games forums
are just talk about games, and nothing else: no "we allow off-topic posts 10% of the time," just as I imagine you don't allow visitors to your home to spit on the couch 10% of the time.

If you want to have "people talking to people," go to SYM--but you already know that, because you've posted, there.
So chill, yourself. If you don't put offtopic posts in this forum, and don't gather infractions, you won't end up getting banned from the boards. And everybody will get along just fine.
But if you have a problem with this policy that has been around as long as GameBanshee has (6 years), feel free to write Buck Satan, the site owner. This isn't the place to question or argue with a poilcy that he has in place.