why do ninjas not lock topics and ban people any more?

It's a disaster. And perhaps it's something the kids these days are used to but that doesnt make it the better system. Just look at the recruitment threads, a sub-reply will bump a post and totally screw with the order. And this is on a topic where it's crucial to be quick, to be able to find a group. So you have to scroll through a bunch of crap that isnt relevant anymore (as an outcome of people being retarded and replying to posts that are 2 hours old and where the poster ended the raid a long time ago). There are other glaring problems with site-recruitment too. For starters, it shouldnt be required. The pugs are probably outnumbering the "real" fireteams 10 000: 1 and they, Bungie, still refuse to implement matchmaking - or they're simply not capable of doing it (the latter being a tolerable excuse). But, if we're going to have this POS approach to forming groups, then atleast put some effort into it. There are currently several big threads for every console and difficulty. Bungie should create threads for every console, raid and difficulty and then prevent those hashtags to be used by members. It would narrow down the threads to roughly 20. Also, I'm aware of the third party raid finder services but out of principle I'll never use a third party for something that should have been in the game.