There were long stretches of time in which this thread wasn't about Steam games. It was just - to the uninitiated who wasn't apparently in the "in crowd" - absolute babble.
I disagree on your point of a community thread. I mean, sure, I want personalities sometimes. I like getting certain people's impressions of games. I like seeing Jawmuncher get hyped for dinosaur games. I like jshackles impresses of those 12 Labours of Hercules games. Hell, I liked the convo about Resident Evil on the last page. Because they're about games, and they're a conversation I can participate in and are interesting to a PC gamer. I can also drop in and throw down info on a sale or something, or find out about new releases too. That's great.
What I really dislike is insular threads that become more about the posters inside of them than any given topic. That's exactly what happened to this thread at first when it was moved to Gaming Community and I'm glad it went back to normal eventually.
I definitely don't mind anime. But when most of the thread is full of anime gifs with no context and I don't understand the conversation after going back five pages, I close the tab.