curl-6 on 10 April 2020
It depends a lot on how many troublemakers are active.
For example, for a long time Nintendo discourse here was rendered somewhat toxic by multiple users I won't name who felt the need to invade almost every Nintendo thread to downplay and spread FUD.
Once those users were perma-banned, the air was cleared and the quality of discourse increased massively.
I imagine it works the same for other groups as well. It becomes less fun to talk about a system or games you like when certain people predictably poison every discussion about it. Again, thankfully our mod team has largely solved this problem on the Nintendo side of things, which is the one I personally can speak for.
