The problem with something awful is their early success went to their head. I was around in the late 90s when SA really took off and became the reddit/4chan of

The problem with something awful is their early success went to their head. I was around in the late 90s when SA really took off and became the reddit/4chan of its day. I know people who used to be massive cheerleaders for SA forums who eventually got sick of the mods. SAs business model used to be banning people for minor infractions and they could then pay $10 to get unbanned. Something as simple as saying "I went and saw MovieX it was 7/10 I thought not amazing" could get you banned for "trolling" I'm out of the loop now as last time I even spoke to someone about SA was 10 years ago but when they were the top dog of internet forums it totally ruined the culture.