On toxicity in forums

[alimdia]

The word "toxic" always gets thrown around so easily, specially when someone dares to disagree with you in any topic. This forum does has a problem of people being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian whenever someone makes a suggestion (aka "this doesn't affect me but I don't want it just because"), but I wouldn't say that's toxicity.

But on the topic...

I tend to prefer the middle ground, honestly. Some posters do need 'thicker skin' and other posters need to take a step back and tone down their aggression from time to time.

The posters who are truly worthy of being taken seriously will be fairly 'middle of the road' and will be capable of agreeing to disagree.

I agree with this, there are people who are over aggressive and there are people who are oversensitive, unfortunately you can't control the first group, but belonging to the second group is your choice, you can choose to ignore aggressive people and hit the middle ground of agreeing to disagree, you don't have to argue with first group people unless you choose to, you don't even have to acknowledge them unless you choose to, if someone is being mean the solution is as simple as not reading chat or blacklisting, and the problem goes away.