Though I've been on the forum for over half a decade, I've only recently become presently active within the last year and a half or so(these days are so blurry).

I've seen it said over a dozen times now that there used to be regulars here who enjoyed the Lore section with the utmost gusto, but it all went downhill during an undefined segment of the Shadowbringers era.

The reason why is cited to be, "People only discuss "lore" in bad faith. There's no more good faith debaters/discussers around."

This confused me, because it didn't seem like anyone who said it really had a deeply different way of communicating their thoughts about what's what, though I did note that a select few are mildly less confrontational than many others.

So I just wanted to make this thread to know. Could someone explain in depth just what is the matter with the present decorum? How can we be better? If we could be better, would the old Lore hounds return?

I ask the question, because whenever I read about good/bad faith, I feel like I am part of the problem (I am certainly pointed). More than that, I just feel like it's a shame to not have the input of those who were here before.

It may be a futile, fruitless gesture on my part, but I would really like to know. This is my favorite part of the forum, short of the off-topic thread in General, heh.