I never thought I would've said this in my life but its hard to feel sympathy for a dude like Gaborn. I never want someone to die or anything, but the guy was a sad bastard who made himself and people around him miserable. He was a prick.
Solution: Don't click the threads.
The titles should've been slightly edited or something but the "sad news/depressing" threads weren't really anyone's problem but the people that clicked them and then gave him replies of "OMG WTF" instead of ignoring them, letting the drop off the front-page and not giving him the attention to do that shit.
Now the moderators pretty much lock them on sight because someone caught feelings that they couldn't simply scroll on by to "better NeoGAF" while still letting a bunch of bullshit float to the top.
Sony got their shit together with the PS3 in the fall of 2009. That means out of the 7 years the PS3 was around until the PS4 launch, you basically need to disregard almost half of its lifespan.
Sfaggotry: not even once
I dunno. I'd say 2007/tail end of the PS2 hard-ware BC was pretty good.

Wipeout HD and other such stuff was getting their stride on. Yeah there was still a lot of jank (PSN is still janky three hardware launches later though so...

) but barring that it actually wasn't as terrible as 2006->2007/launch period was.