Back then I think it was more to do with people bad mouthing each other over their opinions regarding the PT and SE.

The few people who do that on here now tend to be very mild and open and usually come on here to be critical of any anti SE, PT sentiments rather than the other way around.

Or point out what they see as a paradox that OT.COM has an active fan edit community including alternate versions of the SE like (and probably more specifically) Ady's.

I personally haven't noticed it being particularly personal or cruel either way (well not for a long while).

With the possible exception of the Jedi93 business which ended in his banning (probably again for I smelt the undeniable wiff of sock there).

The only instances of rude and personal attacks I've recently witnessed have been on the off topic section with the possible exception of Jedi Temple's elephant gun posts and the reactions to them and most of them seem rather light hearted.

I've caught the occasional reference to OT.COM on places like FORCE.NET that have been rather nasty and most of those have been in the same vein (fan edits bad... SE good... PT good... can't see what the OT crowd are complaining about... George is a saint etc) and they haven't been remotely contested by their moderators.

I still maintain that any bad rap this place gets is from Lucas shills and blind devotees or based on little bumps the boards have had in the past which are long behind them.