Fastfission wrote:
What's the alternative -- start banning people indiscriminantly who act anti-social? I can tell you, if you think people are hostile now...
If they're being banned for a reason (acting anti-social), then they aren't being banned indiscriminately.
Anyway, I suspect that the current "problems" aren't really particularly worse than they used to be back in the "golden age". I've been here almost since the beginning and there have always been these sorts of acrimonious arguments about who's being mean to whom. Personally, I suspect there have been worse periods in Wikipedia's past; I don't have any statistics or anything but just anecdotally I don't think I'm seeing as much bad behavior lately as I can recall in some previous episodes. I credit the ArbCom's actions for much of that, again just based on personal opinion.