Ah, the golden times of days gone by. Selection bias and all that.

 

Personally I don't get heated over things immaterial (nor material for that matter) and generally don't care enough to post my opinions, but I'm not sure the frequency or vitriol of posts and threads have increased noticeably. But then again I'm not reading every thread ever written here. I remember some not-so-pretty issues from the past spreading from forum to forum even although perhaps the number of posters with an axe to grind has grown.

Years and years back Rosity even had a sort of "gloves off" subforum of sorts, but it was shut down due to unpleasantries if I remember correctly.