I have to say, I'm really liking this anti-s**tposting feature. Being able to read through a thread knowing that all the visible posts are the high-quality ones that actually contribute to the topic at hand, as opposed to having to read every post and discard the contents of the rubbish ones, will really make my life easier. It will also encourage people to post higher quality content if they don't want to get "censored".
At the end of the day, while there is room for abuse of this feature, and it's a slippery slope and a thin red line... TPU would not have had to implement it if certain people didn't keep posting statements that are outright untrue, complete nonsense, or are of the form "LOL company <X> is teh evil because of <FUD>". I'd also encourage you to remember that these are TPU's forums, not yours, and as such they can do whatever they damn well please.
On to the topic at hand...
While I agree that actually exploiting these vulnerabilities is nowhere near as easy as Meltdown/Spectre, the fact of the matter remains that they are still vulnerabilities. Let's say that an attacker builds a phishing email that looks like it's from a motherboard vendor, and sends it to a list of email addresses obtained from one of the hundreds of account dumps online. That email redirects to a phishing website that recommends users to download an EXE from it to "patch" their computer's Ryzen vulnerabilitieis. That EXE, of course, contains code that exploits some, or all, of those vulnerabilities. Users are gonna download that file, run it, say "yes" when prompted by UAC, and boom, they're compromised.
So discarding these as "real" vulnerabilities because they need admin access is shortsighted, because users (as always) are the weakest link in computer security.
