I've been watching and/or commenting since autumn '03, so I'm old. This account is newish. (I lost the keys to my old one.)

I remember the post-CW influx, anon commenting being a regular thing, former Big Name Wankas, etc. One interesting thing is tracking how fandom norms have involved. We used to have to remind people that we weren't the goddamn fandom police and that we were only here for the mock. But plenty of things that were wanks then wouldn't be now -- there's probably an abstruse point to be made about socializing out particularly awful behaviour, advancement of social justice issues in fandom, etc., but I'm too busy mourning the fact that The Countess didn't make the voting round.