(I haven't yet read subsequent posts.)

There was never a period of months where posters were only permitted to ask questions. 

This was before your time.  It applied only to non-frum posters.  Uri put an end to it.  I may try to find that post — or, eh, not. It's history.


P.

“What I admire is honesty and truth, no matter who, or what, the sources are.”
— Uri Yosef