With all due respect, the place got mean and nasty way before that. I lurked here for 2 yrs or so before 2001 so I remember well. In fact, the viciousness was one of the MAIN reasons it took me so long to sign up.
The breaking point for me was during the Terri wars, which make the current kerfuffle look like a picnic. At that time, the mods just let kookery and nastiness run wild. That’s when I stopped giving to FR.
I may still post here, but I refuse to financially enable such unhinged, unchecked, frothing-at-the mouth “conservatism”.
See that is the problem, we let them get to us and their goal is to run this forum into the gutter if not at all.\I was here during Teri and my heart broke when they starved her to death. I felt it was so cruel . I know how you feel.But we cannot let the nasty side of politics take away from our ability to speak our peace.