Yes, I know, I reported this problem long ago mostly due to a certain person called christexport (or something like that). My suggestion was that one should be able to ignore topics and remove them from the 'active topics' list. This is similar to how big blogs such as Slashdot deal with their huge daily bulk of information: let the user customize the input they by default perceive (when logged in).

IMO partly, yes.

There is tons of useful information on the forums. Tons of interesting threads. And there have been huge discussions and flamewars, too. Perhaps even more in the past.

That is common in discussions. How to handle with them depends on community, and each individual can vote with their behavior and decisions.

However some people have such big ego they need to grow some skin. E.g. learn to ignore an ad hominem, ignore threads you don't care about, and read inbetween the lines.

Lol? I don't see that anywhere.

I didn't find his post particularly constructive since it contains swearing and not a solution. He doesn't do much different from other people: venting their frustration or opinion. And he does it with swearing while at the same time asking for the community to change their behavior.

There are various ways to achieve his goal.
1) More strict moderation
2) More customized experience
3) Community self-regulates better

Since ITT merge more effort was put in both #1 and #2 (Thanks system, Active Topics, Brainstorm, more active moderators, etc etc). I suppose #3 doesn't work according to him. I'd partly agree, but how to solve?