Might as well share my thoughts:
1)
Strange
just shows how much the forum wants to censor thoughts
I fully support demoting of Joe FWIW
I mean, it's Flipline's forum, Matt can really do whatever he wants, even if that's censoring posts (I'm assuming you mean posts because censoring thoughts doesn't make much sense).
2) If it makes any of you feel better, yes the number of bans is increasing but it's not becoming an abnormal number. The way I see it, we went through an abnormally good period of time and now it's going back to normal.
3) I agree with Nick in the sense that the way I see it, Joe is the only administrator on the forum at the moment. I don't think replacing him makes any sense because there are no good replacements. He's probably the best we've got at the moment.
4) Adding on to what Lusamine said, I have the list of previous bans saved on to my computer if people want me to PM it to them, it's only updated to the date when it was removed off of the forum though.