What is the General Consensus?

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You consistently reference 'this thread' as a basis for refuting my comments about the 'consensus' of the tank forum. This thread is not the tank forum and you would be hard pressed to refute that the forum has not been booked solid with Drk threads for MONTHS. The OP asked about the consensus of the state of tanks. Based on the forum history, it's plainly obvious that the vast majority of threads and posts on the Tank subfourm are Drk complaints/reworks and that a great many threads on other tanks are constantly derailed into Drk QQ. There are reasonable posts scattered around within these threads of course. But once again the concluding line of my very 1st post in this thread:

There is truth to much of the forum complaints. But the extreme loudness (read: sheer volume of posts and threads) exaggerates them on every count.

As said multiple times, If you were to read this forum as a whole looking for the state of tanking at face value, you would have a warped sense of the current state of tanks. This thread is not 'the forum'. This forum has been overflowing with Drk tears for months and that is not up for debate. You have been here the whole time to witness it. Just because you and a few others happen to frequently post measured, reasonable posts does not change the thousands and thousands of QQ posts, threads, and consistently derailing discussion about other topic into more Drk sadness. The consensus of this FORUM (not this singular specific thread. Why would anyone post in a thread to explain the consensus of the thread it's posted in? That makes no sense. Just read the thread.) exaggerates how bad a spot drk is in.

Starting off stating the 'reasonable' view of War>Pld>Drk is fine with you (as you agree with it), yet also tossing a warning that the forum can mislead you into thinking War>Pld>>(insert unimportant number of >> for emphasis)>>Drk is somehow an insult? Saying that thousands and thousands of QQ posts, threads and derailments is being 'loud' is offensive? Its simply true. The point was that you should trust the reasonable judgement based on data, not the thousands of QQ posts littered throughout the fourms. I back this up with the fact that Drk's volume of clamoring matches every non-meta thing in most every forum and should be taken with a grain of salt, just like every other case. Why is there such a pushback against sayind Pld>War>Drk and beware the exaggerated QQ posts all over the forum when determining the 'consensus' on tanks? I get that you are part of the drk community, but you should also easily see that they are, on balance, loud and can easily misrepresent the actual state of drk in this game, just like every non-meta thing before or after them. Why anyone needs to defend the blatantly obvious fact that the forums have been full of QQ on Drk for months is beyond me. It's plain as day.

War>Pld>Drk. Don't buy into all the negative hype that Drk is some shit tier unplayable job, which is what you might believe if you followed the forum consensus (based on the forum history for months). This is not some absurd claim, or evil attack.