What is up with the DF community?

[J_Kepler]

You don't know "toxic" until you've played a MOBA.

I've gotten some impatient groups with DF, but generally I find that if you try to establish a friendly atmosphere early on by discussing the strategy and having a laugh or two before things get serious, the "Greater Internet F***wad Theory" starts to break down a bit. This is not always the case, but pulling out your keyboard and reminding everyone that there's a real person behind the avatar greatly increases your chances of having a good time.

[RyuujinZERO]

This is not always the case, but pulling out your keyboard and reminding everyone that there's a real person behind the avatar greatly increases your chances of having a good time.

This might explain why I've always had good experiences.

Before the the barrier has even dropped I'm immediately in there with a wedge trying to get people chatting with pleasantries and asking/discussing whether anyone's new and needs/can give a heads up before important pitfalls and strategies and they usually stay chatting and pleasant through the entire dungeon even if we royally screw up.

Pretty rare I encounter someone who remains a misery even then (Most notably a healer who kept treating me like an idiot the entire run because I stepped in an AoE early on that I could've avoided if I'd paid due attention - standing in the AoE was of no consequence in the grand scheme but to him that flagged me as "dumb-DPS guy")

[rabbitzero]

You don't know "toxic" until you've played a MOBA.

I've found pretty much PvP to be this. Anytime it becomes PvP, even in a game like WoW in battlegrounds, people become absolutely terrible. I was on a PvE server, and dungeon finder was mostly silent with some raging with people posting recount after every fight (even if we breezed through them), but once i popped into BG? Racist, homophobic, sexist, rape jokes, etc. Same battlegroup as what it pulls from for DF, but even worse behavior.

I really worry about pvp coming into here, it might be great, but i've not high hopes for people. Take people who rage at killing lambs, multiply by a ton. :P