I don't think our community is so bad (referring to the NA community) compared to other gaming communities. There's a schism between what people in the forum are describing and what's actually happening ingame.

My experience right now 1-50 is that it's not all the doom and gloom some people want to make it out to be. But yes there are definitely more bad apples at 50 than there were when I was leveling. What we can do however, which is within our full power as a community is, lead by example, I greet my fellow party members whenever we go in and thank them when we are done. Now if I can influence even 1 or 2 people to do the same, and they in turn can influence a few then it will lead to a positive behavior that will spread.

This is something easy that all of us can do.