> I think the site did change over the years. The site has changed, even though the site has always had people posting terrible stuff. If we call "c" the force

> I think the site did change over the years. The site has changed, even though the site has always had people posting terrible stuff. If we call "c" the force of the people "crap" on the site, you could say there has been a gradual increase in c_{root-mean-square}, even though c_{peak-to-peak} hasn't changed much. This is probably an inevitable outcome of any unmoderated forum in the long-term. Small kernels of confrontation, hatred, and faction/tribalism are going to push away the more moderate posters, eventually concentrating the problem. edit: fixed leftover-word-from-previous-draft error