This kind of behavior is why there is no community cohesion in crypto anymore, and why it will be turned out, pimped by Wallstreet and fucked into the dirt. It is a direct result of feral mobs of arrogant, obsessive compulsive, lemming like children as demonstrated in this thread.
No, that's just these forums. It's become to large for it's own good, and everyone is trying to show they are the best.
Rather than a mega forum we should have several independent forums.
One where the developers hang out and talk technical stuff.
Remove the alt-coin section, they should have their own forums.
A legitimate "silk road" built on the public net for economy.
I'm sure there's enough in Mining to support it's own as well.
With the decentralization and segregation of the forums the elitism can fade, if bitcoin is all about decentralization why does theymos have almost entire control over the communication that transpires?
When the forums went down where did everyone go to communicate? No where, they just complained until the forums were back.