Just chiming in to say I'm sorry to see rj go. I've been around the Wake boards under one handle or another for almost thirty years (I guess that puts me close to "shitty boomer" territory - funny that that kind of comment always seems to escape criticism on here) and I've seen worse behavior that didn't result in a permanent ban. Not going to second-guess the mods' decision because I know they have a tough job, and rj definitely crossed the line at times, but he was also the target of a lot of deliberate provocations on here, some of them from the people cheering the loudest about his punishment.
Definitely a generational angle to this - I do think people are a bit more thin-skinned these days, but it's also a generally a good thing that we do better at policing everybody's language. I said plenty of stuff on the boards back in my younger days that I'd be embarrassed to have dredged up now.