The starting post of this thread is completely wrong in my opinion in two implicit assumptions.

(1) Thread drift is no longer allowed or encouraged.
Actually, it still is and you can see many good examples each day.

(2) The 'shoolmarm' is guilty that the good old times are gone. If only she left we'd have the good old times again.

A parable: Once there were 6 friends who came together and made music and shared stories. It was wonderful and each of them fondly remembers these days. Word went around that they had a good time and more and more people arrived, received with open arms. The new arrivals were mostly known to one of them and if not they made themselves known quickly. They had still a great time with even more stories and songs to share and none of them was more equal than the others except that where they met was a place that belonged to one of them. They always cleaned up after the session and apologised after a heated exchange. There was no need felt for any 'officials' or rules because the session did run smoothly without them.

After some years, more and more people came attracted by the large crowd. Some of them even didn't actually like the music but wanted to seel things or were brawls or just liked to elicit heated discussions in which they could insult everyone. The place was often not cleaned after the session, people urinated in the bushes and those that came for the music at times did not feel comfortable any longer. Rules and officials to enforce the rules were then introduced. Most people did understand that these officials would let pass a borderline remark on a quiet night and would deal differently with the same remark on a night of fighting. Some few didn't.

The officials had a lot to do, for the nastiness, the garbage, the brawls came not in smaller numbers. Then one of the original six, Hans L., had a clever idea: If all those things we do not like still happen despite all the attempts at control and containement, how would it be if we had no controls beyond self control. In the good old times we had no control and it was great, now we have control and it is worse than it was. So if we remove the main difference between now and the golden age, namely the controls, we shall have the golden age again...

Wolfgang