It has been ZERO DAYS since a moderator actually did something in General Discussion

[Theodric]

Same, the forums have never been this bad before recently. Seen more toxicity, trolls, and the doomsayers/ragers the past half year than I have EVER seen in all the other years I've been on these forums. It's downright insane. I don't know what the hell is causing it, but I certainly hate it.

A lot of what some people read as 'toxicity' isn't even toxicity in the first place. It's just people dropping by to express their concerns with the direction of elements of the game, or they're simply saying their piece in a way that reflects their different background, personality and writing style to you. If they're not explicitly breaking any rules then it isn't really any business of other posters to try and intervene.

If that's the common mindset, I think that's a real shame. Discussing a game on its forum (where the forum is a gathering place for fans) is part of enjoying the game, for me at any rate.

Indeed. How unfortunate, then, that there's no shortage of - for lack of a better word - 'concern trolls' who try to police which subjects are deemed worthy of discussion or which characters/aspects of the game that people are 'allowed' to like or dislike.

Worse yet, it's often implied that just because someone voices their concerns about a particular aspect of the game then that means they should quit or that they hate absolutely everything about the game across the board. Which...simply isn't true in the vast majority of cases.