I admit that sometimes I browse some of the older threads. Only if I'm extremely bored though.
I would have done the LBP thread too but alas, I'm banned until the 4th of January.
Regarding the wife beating, generally GAF has the tendency to push the bounds of misogyny pretty far. Rape Time was a pretty popular (ie, overdone) meme for quite some time before the mods put their foot down over it. There's still a big amount of members there that only refer to women as bitches. So as much as it sucks, I kind of understand why they would auto permaban someone for remotely suggesting wife beating, even if other people probably mentioned it in another thread.