I almost never post in the console forum. My competence doesn't overlap the content there very well.
However, it has been abundantly clear that there are a couple of posters that keep spawning off-topic threads.
My position on this is that they should be banned.
I've seen single individuals completely ruin newsgroups, causing the competent folks to throw up their hands in disgust and walk off, leaving only the people with too much time on their hands to hang around and perpetuate the bickering. I'm even of the opinion that those people can be banned who regard the forum as their own personal playground where they just have to chime in on every topic with a useless opinion, or (as above) going off topic. Perhaps a reprimand is sufficient.
It may indeed be best for Beyond3D as a whole if the console forum was dropped. The useless would loose their playground and go build their sand castles somewhere else, the more generally gfx-knowledgeable/interested might diffuse into the other fora on the site.
It is very obvious however that the console forum is nowhere near the quality of the rest of the site. The signal (because there are definitely some quite knowledgeable people there!) is quite solidly buried in the noise.
IMO, get rid of the noise either by banning or by ditching the forum completely.