I can't think of a point since I've been reading and posting here where the forums have got so nasty that a mixture of light humoured common sense and careful and considered official moderation and site restructuring haven't pulled everything back to functionality.
It might help the few problems some users have with the Off-Topic section if there was a fun and games block and a deadly earnest block (or however you would like to phrase it) so that people who are too tired to skip down the page can avoid pictures of Plastic Trumpets, Pies and Washing Machines doing whatever they do here.
Personally I find it fun to have them jumbled up with the more sober comments but I'm not everyone here, I'm just me.