I haven't noticed too much of an increase in trolls. They have been here since the beginning just perhaps in greater numbers now due to expansion of VGC. I have yet to be banned but I am sure I have said a few things that were very close to resulting in ban. I try to post what is on my mind without saying something too bad.
I do feel the overall quality of discussions on this site has gone down a little. I used to enter any thread a year or more back and I would see walls of text of people politely/calmly debating vast topics. Specs and other information being thrown around that most common people would probably not know of. While some of the information might have been false or misleading, I found most pretty accurate. Those users are still here yet I just don't see the type of interesting debate in most threads as I used to.
