Originally Posted by Ki

A lot of it had to do with the older members leaving the site and becoming inactive. Then there was a long stem of time where the mods would crack down on everything, including inappropriate posts. Nowadays, it's much more laxed, but back then, it was even more laxed in terms of people throwing insults at each other, at least until some mods decided to take actions into their own hands and start turning this into a jail with all the rules and whatnot.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.