I'd debate on freedoms but it'd be in subjective perspective qnyway becauss of personal experience.
Regarding handling uhh... Man I'd agree with you if not your trials and errors at reinventing the wheel, the whole concept of this place. You can trust I wish this place the best but your periodic experiments with forum designation, format etc are don't look appealing to general public. It's even less appealing when you make desicions that can be accounted as borderline nuts, take your recent age policy for example. I'm not against teens have e-space to hqngout but we ain't such place. We are the byproduct of lolcow culture where there's no place for people who have not come of appropriate age (ie 18 years old). We are gossip site, one that follows same walkpath kiwifarms do, at some aspects. That's why we are not fit for teens and underage in general.
Wordpress page would have been fine if it was done prior to onion farms, at the very beginning basically. It was done many years later, made most of regulars pissed and scared some part of potential new users.