I have never been banned from the Hive as some on here have been, but I just gradually lost interest.
The odd conflicting combination of censorship with lowest common denominator fonts attracted since the move to Scout have made it an exercise in futility to find anything worthwhile. It seemed it was often a bunch of drive-by fonts making stupid comments combined with moderators furiously working to keep them in line.
I loved the old Hive. But every fear I had about the move to Scout came true. Many of the old regulars fled the noise to the Insider's Board and only made cameo appearances on the unwashed board.
Mind you, ST has suffered a bit from buzzoff refugees bringing their feuds and crap over. And the immaturity factor was raised with a relatively recent influx of youth. But overall it is still far superior to the alternatives. The buzzoff offenders have gradually gotten banned and the worst youthful pollutors have had some manners smacked into them by Beestorm.;)
I prefer ST because there seems to be more control on membership but less control on content. The Hive is the opposite.