The quality of discourse on GAF has literally gone to shit as we've allowed for more users to be on the site and the issue is that bans haven't gotten really lenient recently, members are more readily accepted, and there is no encouragement of intelligent conversations as most posts are merely drive-by. GAF becomes GFAQs every single day. It's really disappointing to see that the site I used to know and love 6 years ago no longer exists.
Quality GAF still exists in sub communities in mega threads like this one and others.
Yeah if you dive into the latest from page news thread then you get a lot of stupid drive by samey posts over and over. But I stay out of those other than to read the news in the OP most of the time.
Edit: Top of Page: Hard to top this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3OEo9Yi1wg
Basically fuck you all who thought I wouldn't do it. I said I would do it I am a man of my word. Keep doing Oracles from up top you pussies.