Yes, Silas - the community is in a horrible state. Anslo mentioned 'faction hopping' and favouritism as being the two things that people are most interested in - and he's bang on 100% right.
My own experience with the RP community has turned Eve from a near-obsession to something I log into when I know a fleet is going out - something I have Slack to thank for, ironically, since I don't have to be logged in to know what's happening in my alliance now. Quite frankly, the ability of some people to be OOC hostile to me because of the people I fly with initially shocked me, but events like these are increasingly common and my experience is certainly not novel.
Now, I took your comments in the light of "I'm confused, please educate me about what I'm seeing and not understanding." but certain people in this community are always setting a wire and then hiding in the bushes so that they can leap out and get their feelings hurt.
I'm not surprised that the horribly under-resourced Eve Community team has latched onto Slack as a low-maintenance way of interacting with a large chunk of their currently interested userbase. Should they? No. But they don't have the resources to do the job properly and it's either something like this (used to be the IGS and was LiveEvents after that) or nothing.