I personally don’t moderate the forums where hijacks are more tightly controlled and don’t frequent those forums either. However, I would like to point out that it wasn’t the current moderators who changed the enforcement of hijacks and tightened up those forums in general. That was Jonathan Chance, and those changes were done for good reason.
These are Jonathan’s words on the subject (they were posted in the OP here but I think they are worth repeating):
Personally, since I don’t frequent those forums, what happens there doesn’t matter much to me. But I do feel that I should point out that those who want less strict moderation are basically saying they want to go back to the prior situation where everyone complained that hijacks were ruining the forums and making it impossible for threads to stay on-topic.
Like I said, those rules were changed for good reasons. A lot of folks in this thread seem to be forgetting those reasons. Jonathan considered it to be very important to those forums that the rules be enforced strictly, as they are being enforced now.