The problem this forum has (or the benefit, depending on how much you enjoy forum drama) is a lack of good moderation. People can just throw around most nonsense and generally not get punished for it by moderation. Some particularly inept trolls will sometimes get their posts deleted aswell as the occasional heated gamer moments. Now as some other people in this thread have pointed out that active moderation doesnt automatically equal good moderation. Good moderation is hard, you need enough people qualified to account for the many posts and you need to have very qualified people able to distinguish which parts of a post are productive to discussion and which arent.

This thread existing is an example of a lack of moderation. Nothing constructive can come from meta discussions and in a well moderated forum they would be thrown out immediately.