I recently found out this video and seeing some of these old posts in combination with the music in the background really made me laugh. I don't think I have ever admitted this, but many years ago, when I was an occasional lurker, I was looking at the forums and my reaction to reading some of the posts was: "Mmmmh, maybe I don't want to join this place". I can't remember who was the author of the posts or what they were about. As you can see, my opinion about the site changed when I revisited the site years later, and finally decided to join.
Needless to say, RPC was home to a lot of a abrasive personalities back in the day, and that probably put some people off, but the quality of the discussions and the fun we had made up for all this.