I've been on TSR for 5 years now under different accounts. And maybe I've just grown out of this site, but it appears to have lost all of it's original value. The majority of posters are judgemental, ignorant and contemptuous people who try and say things for effect, or to seem funny/ banterish, but have absolutely nothing of value to add.
It's a disgrace. The forum used to be used by normal students, but it's now as if it attracts those from the darker areas of the Internet, where bitter, lonely creatures who never feel right in the real world find comfort. It's become a geekier version of Misc and even Reddit.
There's never any decent debate anymore. I remember when the last election was coming around there'd be plenty of good debates going around. Yeah there were plenty of different opinions, but people actually said things of substance. But now it's people just blindly spouting extreme opinions, not giving a toss what the other side says.
And there are so many threads hating on women, it's unreal. I cannot fathom. I see the word 'feminist' used with contempt and disgust in every other thread I read. But the voice of feminists on here are so quiet compared to the pig-headed posters who dominate the forums talking about women as if they genuinely think they are an inferior species.
I genuinely can't work out what's happened to this place, but it doesn't feel like 'The Student Room' anymore. It feels like a forum which attracts the quiet misfits in society. I think this site is done.
I can't post in a site which tolerates people saying victims of sexual assault are justified in being assaulted because 'they are fit though'. Whereas if you dare call someone a troll you get an immediate warning. You need to get your act together.