I've wasted almost ten years of my life on message boards thanks to this site. I probably would never have seen the appeal in them if not for the huge number of people with absurd amounts of knowledge who posted here. Nine and a half years later most of said people rarely post anymore and I barely feel like I know anyone, but there are still a lot of people with a lot of knowledge and I keep reading this board because of them. There are probably still lots of good times to be had here for people who aren't horribly jaded like I am, but even I still manage to find enough entertainment here to keep reading threads and making a few posts a week. Also I'm fairly sure I would have over ten thousand posts if they hadn't been pruned, which probably indicates that it managed to hold my interest for a fairly long period of time, although there are several other sites where I also have (or had) over ten thousand posts so I guess that's not that notable.
I also have never hated demondude and in fact I have no idea why he was ever even banned any of the times he was banned.