>>788524>Any other oldfags that can give a description filling in the blanks of 2015 and 2016?I may be looking through nostalgia goggles, but I remember there being a much larger diversity of opinions, a far greater tolerance for disagreement (i.e. people were chill about it instead of vulgar and hostile), and generally much higher effort discussion. One random thing I remember that would be unthinkable today is that there was a Hungary '56 flag, which was included because there was a substantial number of posters who viewed that movement positively. Additionally Stirnerposting and Bookchinposting were extremely common. I remember that there was always at least one thread up at all times in which MLs and Leftcoms would be trading long effortposts with sources and quotations from Marx, Engels, Lenin, Bordiga, etc. to back up their views. Ultimately, as an ML I think that the predominant opinions of the board have actually become more correct, but at the same time the quality of the discussion has dropped dramatically. I suppose with the establishment of a broadly ML orthodoxy it becomes easier for people to be dismissive and hostile towards differing opinions, plus they rarely have to actually defend their views leading to the decline in effortposts.