First off, I'll note that I agree entirely with >>1's thoughts on this board and this discussion topic. Next:

> Furthermore, the 5chan-idlechan war (or whatever it was) was unnecessary, unproductive, self-destructive.

True. However biased I may be, though, I'd put most of the blame for that on Zabadab and his shadowy backers in the porn industry. And with him gone, the whole community has been much more quiet. I didn't hate 5chan as a site enough to wish it gone forever, but if it was the only way to get rid of him, then we're better off with the whole site gone.

The reason I disliked 5chan had more to do with how it was designed more for swapping obsessively categorized porn than for any kind of community or discussion.