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Just an observation: You say you want to have a discussion that calmly discusses the environment of the forums, but when people started replying and giving their opinions, you immediately became defensive. That changes the future replies.

Part of the reason the official forums of a game seem so...harsh, is because these are players trying to get the attention of developers. Most of the threads in the General Discussion forum are simply "SE, I don't like this change it" By keeping the combined disagreement of members, they are building up pages and pages of support that will influence how things are changed.

When "classes argue" it provides everyone perspective. Why should class A get something when class B has been pleading for adjustment? It's an honest question, however it can be brought up in terrible phrasing.

Unless people are being downright nasty (for which they usually receive some sort of punishment), I don't see the forums as being "toxic." I may have missed something, would you provide some examples?