You know, I joined this forum yesterday to hook-up with other Futurama fans. I really hoped to avoid the idiocy of typical forums,
Then don't venture into the wish void or information booth. Seriously, all the cool people hang out in offtopic. Any questions here are ignored or spammed to death. Anything in the on-topic sections attracts retards, perverts, simpletons, deviants, morons, reprobates and generally stupid fucks. It will receive several tons of spam, and a few ounces of intelligent comments.
Off topic on the other hand is pretty much self-regulating. The cream of PEEL gathers there to discuss meeting up in person, getting into the PEEL group pictures or trading cards or other miscellaneous projects, and editing
wikiPEELia.
Also, as to the comments you recieved, "PEEL is racist" was made by one of our newest and younger members. "Make it yourself" was posted by one of our laziest and most apathetic disillusioned teenagers. "What the hell is Kwanza" was a genuine Futurama reference by one of our wisest and most venerable members. I think you got off lucky, son. Especially considering the guy with access to the avatar pool doesn't really care about updating it, since we can all have custom avatars now.