Makes me think how much collective human knowledge we're losing as all the old forums go extinct (Archive doesn't backup everything).
Live streamers are guilty of this. Its become a standard for Twitch broadcasters to call their viewer base a community in, what I guess is, a way to get viewers to think tipping the broadcaster is benefitting the "community" while only the broadcaster benefits.
We have player bases, viewers, commenters, categorized in action, but not purpose.
That said, in the past it was more generally accepted that forum moderators would rule with an iron fist.
Seems more recently, if you're being a dick and you are moderated it's interpreted as censorship and an attack on free speech.
Related. One thing I have noticed in the last decade is people no longer pulling people up on their spelling and grammar as much as they used to in the early days of debating the internet. I like this.