Just like an adored local restaurant, it went to shit "under new management" when the original owners cashed out and the users moved on. So everything started to suck around the moderation.

I vaguely remember such was their commitment to free speech, if you browsed at -1 they allowed posts to remain up that broke the HTML and page rendering, and refused to take them down on principle, until they could update their filters. Those early days of the web were a wild west.