But the problem is that we are not a single unity but a huge bunch of individuals who are from different countries thus also different traditions and upbringings. Thus for some a post might sound really negative or aggressive while for the person itself its just the way they react to things. Putting on tin foil hats and pointing out how more communication or even surveys could still be bad also does not help a discussion (just saying). The same with going into topics and point out how negative a community is. If this has nothing about the topic itself (like a thread about the community) this only turns it into a off topic discussion or starts a flame war. I mean if I go into a topic where someone complains (with or without great feedback) about something and I just write how horrible this community is and that they will be never fine with that, I am not helping the topic at all. It does not give a point on how I truly see it, it can start arguments that are unnessary and it paints a whole community with too big of a brush. Maybe that person never complained before and suddenly is put with the part of the community that constantly complain for the sake of it. That is far from fair but is also done. We have the forum mods that should be enough to police this place and they do delete posts or topics if they are too bad. And if someone is truly just trolling or using personal insults we can point this out to the mods too. Other than that its not our job to police the place and it should not be that way. Because who decides what is still fine and what not?
I have been part of this forum for some time and honestly in my opinion the ones that often dont help a topic are those that attack the person behind a post or that cant accept negative feedback. I have seen enough great threads that had good feedback but you had a few individuals that took it way off topic by putting down the feedback as nothing but hate and rage. Yes there are posts that are nothing but hate with no feedback but there are also more than enough posts that started as a rage thread and turned into a interesting discussion with good points. And if someone says they hate x then this might not be the most valuable answer ever but its still an answer. SE might not get feedback on how to make it better but if for example you have someone posting that they hate something and get a huge amount of likes..they still know that there is maybe something wrong with it.
About this topic having speculations and stuff: If you want to post an argument you often need examples. Thus people are using old situations where the communication was bad as examples and I am not really sure how this takes a way from the topic itself. Honestly the ones that are off topic at least in this thread are the ones that took one example (Eureka) and tried to spin it into another such thread. Otherwise it did stay on topic enough and did show how SE kinda lacks in that part.


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