The place gets a lot of flak because pretty much everyone who has a thread is either exactly the kind of person who never got it into their head that if they can't laugh at themselves, they have no right to laugh at others, or someone who for whatever reason doesn't want shit that they posted publicly to be un-deletable.
So we pretty much become whatever boogeyman they don't like, either to make themselves feel better, or in the case of a fair whack of lolcows, to discredit the Farms and the information available in their threads to whatever people belong to their in-group so they either don't bother to look or don't believe what is available in that person's thread.
Oh, and the fact that you can say shit like nigger or espouse unironic extremist views without getting insta-banned.