Pointless spam is crap. I'm talking quality "spam", such as the Stuffed Unner thread, etc. Those kind of things just wouldn't work these days as people post once and move on, if they post at all. The lack of active members doesn't help, I'm guessing.

I don't agree that the quality of replies were better. I think people have just as much to say now as they did then, it's just a case of some people having said it so many times before that they can't be arsed doing the whole thing through once again. But for genuine threads, I think the replies these days are just as good as they were back then...

I also think there was more drama back then, and not only in the genuine drama way, but also the more silly variety. When someone did something, it was always somehow rather significant. Remember the Dawn Warriors or whatever they called themselves? The so-called "other unofficial rivals to the Cid's Knights" or... whatever. That was kind of amusing. If someone did that now I'm not sure they would have as much heart in it. Or maybe the CK's were just more responsive back then, whereas a lot of us on staff these days are rather apathetic.