Water, what you said reflects my feelings...been playing for 20+ years myself, and love it. (People with like-minds are the ones who made it possible for us to be here and I will always be grateful.)
I chose Excelsior in honor of Stan Lee when I created my account here, and it's a great server. I still think that CoH has the best community of any game hands down. Of course there will always be the 'unevolved' folks who play. They are everywhere, even within our own families. That being said, they stick out like sore thumbs because the most amount of players here are friendly, helpful and a lot of times generous inf. In my time on Excel, I have encountered 'those' kind of people so few times it's not worth mentioning. The star rating is a great way to keep track, and BLOCK is your friend.
General Chat is mostly funny and informative, but if it goes off into an area I don't want to read, I switch to the tab that I created and named SILENCE...which is totally empty.
I refuse to let other people spoil my enjoyment of this game. I will most likely be found like this when my time on earth is over...😁