Replying to People leaving NS

So I keep reading all these threads where people are "not coming back" to ns because the forums have turned into cesspools of unintelligible rants with people dissing one another for no reason. Well, I've been on NS for a while and I have never seen it turn into that because it has always been that. I stay because there are some good threads with good info (even if most are stupid)and the vids and pics are sick, so my question is when were these good ol' days of intelligent discourse on NS, or for that matter, the entire internet?