Or it could be because you had already found your comfort level before the wank of S6 and S7 turned into a never-ending flood of splooge. I was just getting into online fandom in Season 6, so I was basically relying on search engines to show me where to get started.

That's probably the only reason why I ended up in those places to begin with.

Certainly by the beginning of S7 I rarely ventured onto the "big Buffy boards," primarily I just didn't find them all that much fun.