Sunshine but no light...

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by sublynx

I've been a member of this forum for a couple of years now and I still regularly wonder how come this forum is almost always helpful and friendly as most of the other forums I've been to are not. This forum is a sort of virtual brotherhood - you can write what you want to say without much fear that someone takes it the wrong way. Newcomers are treated with respect, too.

I think the average age here is higher than most forums. We get some young'uns, but for the most part people here are at least in their late 20s, and quite a few are easily twice that. Also, sub sims are the kind of game that require some patience and thought. The average gamer doesn't want to spend hours just looking for something to stalk for several more hours, then do it all over again.

The third possibility is that while our General Topics forum can get pretty wild, for the most part we don't allow too much crap in the game forums. Someone proving himself to be a real troll will find himself taking a time-out in short order.