When the forum was the forum. Best thing about this place today are the contests and a few good posters. Although the good posters outnumber the bad, the worst do the most screaming. Just like real life, the silent majority tends to observe from a distance
The return of sports will help, most of us will gravitate to those topics
As will putting this pandemic behind us, because the virus cheerleaders will never know they're simply pawns and they can't comprehend live and let live principals even when all their worst predictions are all proven wrong
Both of the aforementioned occurrences will put politics and bullshit back into the cellar, and the haters start to fade away (which has actually started, albeit a tad bit too slow)
Then we'll just start complaining about the losers with no life bashing everyone's picks, usually because they chose to blindly follow.