Same here. For the complete opposite reason. Thankfully, the next week should have the most on-topic conversations the Forum has seen in quite awhile.
The posts coming from these two users had gotten completely out of hand. To put this into perspective, these two have had 110+ posts (rightfully) flagged, and 200+ posts deleted. They should actually be thankful that they’ll have the ability to be unsilenced at all. (2016 DRow would not have been so generous)
Seriously, I could buy quite a few Christmas presents if I had a dollar for every post I’ve seen about “Shrek: The Musical” in the past 2 months.
All forum users have this potential. Some would rather just continually flood it with meme posts and off-topic comments that bring nothing to the conversation. (I’ve been thinking of a very particular clip from “Billy Madison” quite a bit lately)
As James said above, forum silences / suspensions can only be done by mods. (In both of these cases, me)
I get that these guys are younger, and are just now getting their first exposure to the vast world of the internet. It’s exciting to post your thoughts and opinions for others to see for the first time. That said, the VEX Forum IS not, and WILL not be a place for pointless chatroom discussion. Take that to the 2500+ message PM or one of the dozen VEX-related Discord Servers, since you know, those were actually intended to be a chatroom.
I’d like to ask these people to continue flagging posts. Community moderation is one of my favorite things about this forum software, and more often than not, the flags are 100% warranted.
Absolutely not, as no forum rules were broken. 
Now that I’m done responding to posts, I’d like to gently remind everyone to re-read the Forum Rules if you haven’t done so in awhile. Specifically the parts under “Improve the Discussion”, and this particular line
Rather than posting “+1” or “Agreed”, use the Like button.
That goes for “Preach Brother (20 characters)” also…
Happy Thanksgiving everyone, and thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
