Eh, I had just as bad an experience in the Debate area on this site that I did in GD. But since this is just an internet site and that's just a forum, it doesn't bother me too much. The GD on Gaia does go way overboard, though.
Was anyone there last year for the "King Dough" incident? It took Gaia 2 and a half hours to ban 1 account consisting of someone posting 32 racist threads and 4 racist comments and then switching over to another account and commenting in troll. THAT was a fail on Gaia's behalf.
I always lurk in Gaia's GD. Sometimes there's a rare occassion where one of the trolls is funny. Other than that, I don't really like it. None of my friends go on it anymore either. Hopefully they'll join here.