Yup. Was awesome show though.

I missed it

It's a very difficult balance to find.

I would actually say that ARFCOM's problem over the past decade has been creeping/incremental UNDER-moderation.  

Now, I am not saying the site needs harsh and puritanical moderation.  I hope people know me well enough to know that's not my thing.  

But, about 10-12 years ago (or something like that, don't quote me) we started getting a big influx of people from the chans - or just a bunch of kids who were more used to the chans - and that gradually resulted in a subtle shift on the site, in which there were just more people who thought it would be funny to shit-post for the sake of shit-posting, and thought it was acceptable to just personally attack people who disagreed with them, and seemed fanatically unable to just let people have different opinions, and instead thought it was acceptable to shit on people who had different views than them.

Some of the Paul Bots (was that back in 2008) were an early symptom of this.  They would shit in ANY and all threads on politics, attacking anyone who disagreed with them, to the extent that they eventually had to be quarantined in one thread.    Since then, we've seen the same pattern with early Trump supporters, and with Q followers as well.  It wasn't enough for them to have their own opinions - they had to agressively attack and troll people who didn't share their opinions, and try to shit in as many threads as possible.  

Another symptom is just posters (kids, I imagine.  Heck, I hope they are kids, because it would be depressing if they are adult), who just enjoy being caustic assholes to people, and just want to be dicks.  I don't know WHY people do that, but the fact that I don't understand it doesn't change that fact that it exists, and we've gotten more and more of those members over the past decade.  

From the site perspective, it kind of happened slowly and incrementally, and by the time we realized it was a problem that was gradually changing the "feel" (maybe culture?) of the site, it had already become quite pervasive.  Personally, I think the result is that the site has become far less enjoyable than it used to be, and had far less of a feeling of camaraderie.

Now that MIGHT just be an inevitable result of growth, but I do think the site would be better today if we had jsut cracked down a LITTLE more on personal attacks and shitposting over the past 10-12 years.

I hope that makes sense.