Mostly it depends on where you hang out. Most of it now is what was once reserved for the Smoky Backroom.
Possibly it's related to a general breakdown in civility; a growing coarsening of our society. The kind of thing that was noticed a couple of thousand years ago.
Some areas, devoted to learning and polite repartee, go on as if bannings and crevo wars were a distant memory related to the late unpleasantness.
Denizens of the Undead Thread like to pretend that we are distant from all that worldliness, having taken to the Asteroid Belt some years ago. By shrinking our world, (to three connected Habitats), we avoided the expanding incivility. (For the most part.)
People who want to stir up trouble find us too boring for their tastes. (Cue the talking about babies and sore throats!)
I have found that if you insult people and call names it is much harder to convince them of anything.