Well, congratulations. Still another year or so before I get there, but I'll get there eventually if I stick around. Not sure I want that badge so much as I want the Neo one though, just 'cause its got Neo. And the Morpheus one. And the Trinity one. There needs to be a Smith one. There probably is. I need to find it and acquire it.
Got to agree with others on the topic of the forums becoming more hostile. People on the forums always disagreed with you, but it was often a nice, fair and good argument between two people, at least in my experience. I got into a 20 wall-length post argument with one guy, and we decided to call it off and join forces against a third faction for a bit of a laugh at that point. Whilst there were still a lot of crap threads, there more user reviews that got into the top section of the site from time to time, and it at least seamed that a lot of people back then behaved more like they do in this thread, and go on and talk about how in their experience things have always been this way, and asking why everyone else thinks they weren't.
These days I try not to post most of the time. If I post anything I know I'll get into an argument that I'd really rather not have, with someone who so obnoxiously claims that they're right that I can't help but argue back against them. Even then, in the arguments, more time is spent calling the other person a troll, claiming they're stupid or otherwise just saying that they're wrong, or calling strawman at the slightest misunderstanding, rather than being polite and saying "Maybe you misunderstood me". Its done in a way that it doesn't break the rules, but its not much better TBH. Hell, I've even received PMs from time to time that DO break the posting rules just in an attempt to circumvent punishment. I mean really, there were always a couple of people that were like this but these days it feels like the aggressiveness that used to feel largely contained by the Religion and Politics subforum has spilled out into the rest of the site. Probably 'cause a lot of notable posters who did things right and were often polite and kind have disappeared. Still like a lot of the stuff this site puts out, and there are some nice threads to hang around in, but it does slowly seem to be fading into more hatred instead. Just my opinion though, and experience will vary.