If it's any consolation, what happened in your thread was less about the actual subject at hand, and more about some other stuff that was going on in UB. That's why it got locked, and I'm sorry I had to do it. But yeah, in general, Brawl vs. Melee threads (even threads questioning why there's Brawl vs. Melee) don't turn out well.
Believe me, there's nothing you missed from 2008-2009 that was worth experiencing. This place was a horror show, and it's really been downhill since then, although the decline has slowed somewhat recently. The release of Brawl coupled with MLG buying it has really trashed the boards. There are alot of things wrong with SWF and the Smash community in general, but the worst aspect of it is the lack of maturity. I suppose that's to be expected, since the audience for Smash tends to skew younger than, say, Street Fighter or Tekken, but it gets really annoying REALLY fast, especially when you're forced to essentially babysit so many posters.