Is Boards aware of the reputation it has across the web?

From my point of view I like boards as a place to go on the Internet.
The journal is fine, great in fact but the comments section is full of multiple accounts and trolls. There are links between the two sites I'm sure. I've seen Tom Murphy post about it on the journal, but they are different places to go with different experiences, kind of like buying on ebay from a user with good feedback they want to protect or rolling a dice on done deal with a seller using a throw away phone.
At one stage I saw some one post about Irish water on a piece about someone with a sick dog, if that was boards that poster would not last spamming every thread and turning every story around to Irish water or politics. On top of that some political parties are arganised to do just that.

It's different strokes for different folks but of I'm talking about DIY or sport I don't want an environment where anyone can just rock up and turn the topic onto their pet concern in an attempt to being their issue to the front of every agenda.
These other places exist and that's the way it should be imo, but it's no harm to have other environments on line where people who like things a certain way can visit.

There is some serious theory behind this you will always get posters who exist to disrupt, you need to cater for them in computer games and online, but socialisers represent a huge part of the online public, they generally leave sites and games where trolls and disrupters have too much pull, like the way I don't post much on the journal anymore, but I read it.

I guess just like the BBC and RTE were hit by the large amounts of new TV stations competation within the communal sites will grow until the whole thing is superseded.