I dunno. Things have gotten worse, but the fundamentals of the community still keep standards here better than i have seen elsewhere. Like on Joystiq when the whole "West & Zampella v. Activision," came up, if you posted anything more objective than "Kotick sucks donkey balls" or some other bit of anti-Activision pro-Infinity Ward propaganda, you could sit back and watch your comment be downvoted into oblivion, but here i recall having an actual discussion on the matter, a fairer assessment of West & Zampella's actions or of what Activision had going for it.
On other sites certain ideas are taken for granted like the concept i mentioned above, ideas that we keep constantly questioning here, and that keeps things from ever really going down the tubes.

Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.







