It seems to me that things degenerated because people can’t A: follow site rules, B: think they have ‘freedom of speech’ on a privately owned website and C: think their donations or mere presence allows them to call the shots over what goes on here.
And then someone like you comes along complaining that the poor and downtrodden are somehow justified in their actions.
It’s simple. Just like a bar or business club or any other group. You stay because you want to and follow the rules. Or you don’t.
But acting like catty schoolgirls here, on TBL or anywhere else is anything but adult, rational or likely to get people what they want.
Gee, thanks for the lecture...whoever you are...not that I care.