By the sounds of it that's a good thing. The whole point of a forum is discussion and 'conversation' of a sort, and no discussion or conversation, outside of formal debate, rides a strict track. By its very nature social human interaction is dynamic and tangential, and to try and control its route is to stifle its spontaneity and inhibit its natural flow. Any forum policy that does that outside of a formal or technical context will detract from the forum content.
Imagine you're at the pub with friends (a context comparable to Rome.ro or any other social forum, I believe). Someone initiates a conversation about their girlfriend's weird habits with food, someone else responds with an anecdote about their own partner's eating foibles, then someone else mentions that sometimes oddities in people can be a point of affection and dearness, moving the conversation on to cute little idiosyncracities in women. Now, would you at that point tell everyone that the conversation must end, because the third speaker had diverted the conversation away from weird eating habits, the initial point of discussion?
Now I understand that this particular part of the board is less social than the rest, because it's here for people to air grievances as much as anything else, but I don't see any reason to formalise it.
This forum is all about fun, games, community, and people. The welfare and enjoyment if its users should always be at the forefront of the minds everyone here, including the staff. Enjoy it as an open and friendly place, rather than a formalised, rule-driven, unspontaneous pit of dispair!
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