Judging from the fact that a lot of the posts from the second era, which I caught the finishing two-three years of, were quite antagonistic at times, I for one prefer that people are nicer and tamer.
It is interesting to see different takes on the online world. Certainly most of us are willing to put up with some things online that we would not do so at work or home, but it seems that difference is shrinking (for better or worse). I wonder if it is a generational thing. Personally I think we should be able to take a little bit more antagonism from anonymous strangers online.
But we can all agree that if a site has rules and you repeatedly flaunt those rules, then you can expect consequences.