MOT Newbie has been on that situation for a while and I agree with him that the tenor of commenting over there is a problem.
I have mixed feelings about whether to not to step in and comment or to stay away frm that mess. I do think that f a large enough group of us could start adding comments to try to get things back on ytrack in those threads it might help.
The trick would be to not get into crap-slinging matches with people over there trying to be trolls, but to simply start adding useful, meaningful content and try to outweight the crap.