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More negative than what I have been accustomed to, probably due to only a relatively few, but highly obnoxious, members who feel they need to pick apart the OP, no matter what the subject or question. Sad to have such a strong need to feel superior. You can't get taller by pushing the other person down.
I've been where a while. It's gotten better than it used to be, but there are still some really rough people here, and we've got our share of trolls and such too. I'm on another forum, and it is far more positive and much nicer, but it's also far less active, and so there is just a lot less to engage with there. It's become a matter of quality or quantity.
I have to laugh because with the Toronto incident, many of my friends on social media are like, "OMG did you know about this incel thing?? I'd never heard of it..." and having been here for years, um yeah...I'll just say I'd heard of it, and similar ideologies. Nothing new.
But it's one thing when things get feisty in emotionally charged subject areas like Relationships, Politics, etc. I've been shocked how folks here can even get downright nasty talking about darn near anything. Cat food for crying out loud.
But I've also made a few "net friends" here who are awesome. They make it worthwhile.
I consider all three of the forums I visit to be pretty negative: this, 2+2, and a Buffalo-area blog/comment section. Not even sure how I'd rank them, though I imagine all of them to be more negative than 'the norm'. They're also all frequented by intelligent people, so I always find myself returning in spite of the drawbacks (although I haven't been to 2+2 in a while--had visited that site regularly for years).
hmmmm....I'm not on many forums but have found this one fun and informative. Yes, there are a few 'regulars' who are nasty and have a bit of an attitude, but you can ignore them. I had a tussle with a few when I made an ill-considered hillybilly comment (it was supposed to be funny) and I had to apologize more than once. The moderator was even like, jeez, give it a rest already.
A local news forum where I live will simply not publish your comments if they don't like what you have to say (much is subjective).
Some of the general forums are interesting and funny.....
The main difference between city-data and any other online forum or group I frequent or have frequented in the past is that it's a more broad cross-section of people. All other online communities I've participated in are far more targeted, or deal with very specific niche communities (military spouses, professionals in a given field, people in a particular age group, certain niche interests). While they're not all tiny, most are smaller and its participants are not so all over the place in terms of what brought them to a given forum.
Here, there are loads more people with less in common, which can make for more interesting and enlightening interactions, but can also lead to conflict. It's not depressing or "not depressing," it just is kind of the nature of the beast.
I have to laugh because with the Toronto incident, many of my friends on social media are like, "OMG did you know about this incel thing?? I'd never heard of it..." and having been here for years, um yeah...I'll just say I'd heard of it, and similar ideologies. Nothing new.
Right?
I'm raising my eyebrows at news outlets on NPR being all, "What is "incel?" What you need to know," because I'm like, "Geez, people, spend about three minutes googling and reading a bunch of angry messageboard dudes' posts, and you'll know more than you ever wanted to know..." But then I realize that by participating in forums populated by a pretty broad cross section of the population, I get a lot more exposure to the sorts of things people who don't interact with different types of people online or in life don't really come across.
As far as "net friends," I had a few messageboards I posted on regularly in the early to mid-2000s, when I was in my twenties and new to forums, where a number of IRL friendships and meetups and relationships and such sprang up. It was great, for that particular time and place, but now, where I am in life, I keep far more boundaries up between myself and fellow online forum posters, for the most part, when it comes to anonymous forums.
The main difference between city-data and any other online forum or group I frequent or have frequented in the past is that it's a more broad cross-section of people. All other online communities I've participated in are far more targeted, or deal with very specific niche communities (military spouses, professionals in a given field, people in a particular age group, certain niche interests). While they're not all tiny, most are smaller and its participants are not so all over the place in terms of what brought them to a given forum.
Here, there are loads more people with less in common, which can make for more interesting and enlightening interactions, but can also lead to conflict. It's not depressing or "not depressing," it just is kind of the nature of the beast.
I pretty much agree with this, although I think this forum is much less cliquish than some of the gaming forums I used to participate in. Plus I tend to stay away from P & C because I do sometimes find myself getting ... not depressed but perhaps worried or frightened at the amount of ignorance on display there.
I pretty much agree with this, although I think this forum is much less cliquish than some of the gaming forums I used to participate in. Plus I tend to stay away from P & C because I do sometimes find myself getting ... not depressed but perhaps worried or frightened at the amount of ignorance on display there.
The Politics and Controversies forum is pretty crazy. There are a few smart regulars on it but, overall, there are too many very young, naive types with the attention spans of a fly. So, it's near impossible to have a cohesive dialogue.
Another problem over there is that it's obvious some are posting on it b/c they're being paid to do so. A particular political party is trying desperately to become relevant again and they have deployed paid and lame trolls all over internet boards. What a joke. They deserve to stay irrelevant with tactics like that.
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