If you want a good contrast, visit the official Total War forums.
If you post something critical of the abortionate mess ETW vanilla is, the post vanishes. Do it again you get banned. The only review that addressed all the issues and rightly panned the game was banned from the site, and any attempt to refer to it was purged. All the 95%+ "this is the greatest game ever to see the light of day" reviews ~ which also spoke volumes as to the professionalism of most game reviewers ~ were plastered all over the place.
Talk about a totally terrible environment.
The irony is the TotalWar Center site, where all the serious modders etc live, simply became more and more critical.
The moderators here are good. I think in 9 years I've disagreed with them once, and even then it's civilised.
The fact that this community is self-regulating to some degree helps a great deal, too.
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