I'd say it was about the tail end of 2004.
We had pretty good debates up until then. We traded barbs amongst ourselves, but we still debated the issues.
Now, we have mods that change the titles of threads, shitcan threads that don't conform to their own political views, and are just cowards in general.
It's no wonder that this place has lost so many of the goodl, regular posters. I think that Sesh, GS, FORD (as nutty as his theories are),and kb are about the only libs here worth debating that aren't so full of misplaced anger that they can still debate.