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    I find it sad too that sometimes people have interesting suggestions and instead of just ignoring it if they have no interest in the topic people feel the need to post "funny" one-liners or GIFs, often resulting in hate or off topic discussions. I go through the first pages of this forums daily and I will only click on those threads that interest me at least a little. I dont mean people that have different opinions. I mean those that are only going into a thread to make fun of it. On the other side there are enough thread creators that are way to sensible and cant understand that maybe not everyone shares their opinion and feel like they are personally attacked by the others.

    @Miste: Well I can only speak for my reasons but Texas post did feel a little toxic. Why is it necessary to ask this question? Its like you are in a topic that talks about the bad things of the game and someone comes in and write "if you dislike X why do you still play it?". The OP said that she still enjoys reading here (only likes reddit a little better) and only wonders why its getting more toxic now. Nothing in her post suggest that she hates this forum and absolutely love the other one, just that she noticed a change and wanted an answer. Also since nobody can see the other person one can only imagine how they mean it and its seems that there were quite some people that read it in the negative way. Does a big number of likes make a post true? No, but maybe it can be a hint that the way the sentence was worded was not that good. (And a post can still be mean/aggressive/toxic without name calling. Its sometimes just the way you wrote it.)

    My mother tongue is German and not English, so I always just sit there, read everything over a lot of times and really hope that it wont come off as really aggressive or mean in any way. And sometimes when going through the different kind of threads I think to myself that some should really look at their post and ask their self if this is truly still nice or if this could not come over as a personal attack. I know that its not easy, since people can feel attacked by every little thing, but reading some of the posts in this forum really makes me question if some might have forgotten that there is a real other person on the other side of the post. One can be against something or have another opinion but there is no need to attack the other for this and I agree with the OP that it feels like this happens way more.
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    Last edited by Alleo; 01-06-2017 at 01:43 AM.