Really? I guess you are too new to remember "Just Damn" and Ash Alerts, not to mention some of the utter lunatic conspiracy tards.
It's the Internet. Ugliness and bile are just a mouse-click away. So are a lot of good things.
Sure I remember the nonsense of a decade ago....my point is that I also remember the intelligent discourse and see that the percentage of the former has increased drastically while the percentage of the latter has dropped pro-rata.