Well, as you can see from most responses, this is how the forums just operate. The fact is, "One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric", which you can see translate in a lot of these postings. Just because one person says "ew you suck", it doesn't necessarily mean they are being mean (I like to give benefit of the doubt), but they could be in the mentality of "I am not going to sugarcoat anything for you". This is NOT in all cases that happen (people are people and some just want to hurt feelings), but I also have noticed more people adopting this mindset (which I am a fan of). Now, I am guilty of this also, when you read someone else's post and you feel like they are attacking you, you attack back (not defending this, just a mistake I do) even if they did not mean it as an attack. I mention all of this because these are things that I see in almost every forum I have gotten into. If you throw a bunch of people into a room from different parts of the country, lock the door, tell them to share opinions....do you really think there wouldn't be some stupid/venomous conversations going around? Now take that same room, drop the Bill of Rights in the middle, and tell them to talk about it and share their thoughts.....you might need to get law enforcement to help you with this kind of experiment though cause I wouldn't want to see the aftermath.

You also see troll postings/responses, bait postings\responses, and emotional postings (posting in anger, ext)... that are all DESIGNED to get a rise out of you, and while these have always been around, if you are just joining the forum community...well then ya it can be a ton of new things to sift through. I will say, I wish that these forums seemed more moderated, but I also enjoy the freedom it seems to give you with posting your thoughts (I say seems cause I know there is a lot that happens that I am not privy to).

In the end, most posters love this game and want to see it succeed/continue to succeed and most posts come from that original mindset. What I can say is that, if you agree with a post then give it a like. If you don't share your thoughts. If people don't agree with you, then don't take it as an attack. If people attack you, don't play their game. Aside from that, use the forums to help you with your game/learn new things. I can say I have gotten better at the game since joining the forums and that is because of the high-level conversations I get to read and have.