Ebay has become more of a volume commercial site. Worth noting for some, that it is primarily a shopping site, and not in the business of providing free chat-boards.

Those boards remain free, though obviously cost money to run, maintain and moderate. I can see a reason to provide support for it's own help boards, less so for it's chat boards.

I doubt whether anything but self-regulation would please some, and their fairy stories reflect that. Bill and Ben's mate