ah, i disagree lolocaust (by the way, how's your grandmother? oh, and get a haircut). /b/ at times is nastier than anything on stileproject or orsum or any of the other shock sites. its the only place i frequently run into real pictures of real children being raped. have you ever seen that at a website that didn't specifically cater to child porn?
but yeah, /b/ has toned down lately. i don't really think its increased moderation or the paypal/yowcow thing, i actually think that time on /b/ changes your opinion of whats disgusting. try it, go to /b/ and ask people to post the most disgusting, horrifying picture they have. you're going to get a lot of pictures of ashlee simpson and britney spears.
and they're just not fucking around or trying to be ironic either; when you look at goatse and tubgirl and real-life guro and bestiality and child rape on a regular basis for months, horror becomes a philosophical concept. so to a /b/tard, conformity and hypocrisy ARE the most horrifying things anymore.
honestly, /b/tards will rail at someone for 50 posts continuously for being a hypocrite even when they know the person is just trolling.