I used to be able to spend hours, literally hours, watching clearly informed intelligent people cite sources and just fucking shred about absolutely anything. In any thread, someone, somewhere was having this uber detailed “I give a fuck and therefore I’m sharing what I know because its relevant” type long-form debate. Or rather it was a considerably less adversarial discussion it was just people sharing thoughts and ideas. It’s what drew me to the site and it is the stuff I most enjoy reading. I may not be intelligent enough on any one topic to contribute but I try to where I can and I will never regret making an account here. But it fucking sucks to think of what this site was 5 years ago when I joined and what it is now. I feel sorry for some of the people that helped build and create this site in 2005.