A bit of Realism

[Tchocky]

Heh, I joined Subsim at pretty much the same time as I stopped playing subsims regularly, so I've never really had cause to hang out on the sim forums. And yes, GT has been a lot worse in the past.

[August]

Originally Posted by NeonSamurai

I don't know of what golden age you speak, GT has always been like this.

A lot of it is people who only wish to spread their argument and have absolutely no intention of considering another position, let alone debating it. The thread devolves, people get hostile, the old lines are drawn (liberal vs conservative, religious vs non-religious, etc), and the ugliness starts anew. Sometimes the moderators have to step in to calm things down (or just lock an out of control thread).

In some ways it's a little less extreme than it once was, certainly politically anyhow.

Dude you say that like it's a bad thing!

Seriously some hurt feelings and irritation are the worst things that has ever happened here at the GT and those are almost always the result of a thin skin and not somebodies skill at verbal jousting.

When placed on the scale of human social activities that's not too shabby.

[Flaxpants]

Originally Posted by August

Dude you say that like it's a bad thing!

Seriously some hurt feelings and irritation are the worst things that has ever happened here at the GT and those are almost always the result of a thin skin and not somebodies skill at verbal jousting.

When placed on the scale of human social activities that's not too shabby.

Well said that man.

Any sort of heated argument in my opinion is generally not going to go very well on a forum, or via emails or such like, so if you enter into one, don't expect a bed of roses and don't take things personally.

For me though, these forums are a highly sociable place, and even the conflicts are generally carried out with a degree of politeness. I don't see a problem.