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Is it me, or does it seem like a lot of the members here are overly critical, easily-offended liberals? Please note that "a lot" does not mean "all" members. I'd probably like these forums a lot more and be much more active if it had a positive environment.

Edited by Throw Sand - July 23 2013 at 22:37

^Not many conservatives, though .

To answer the OP: no.  Every forum or community of any sort will have "overly critical and easily offended" people, but I have found that most of the regulars here are quite intelligent and reasonable folks, and though we disagree on many things we are able, for the most part, to discuss our differences respectfully.  There are exceptions, of course, and it's true that oftentimes the most negative voices are also the loudest.  But if you're willing to engage in discussion and be respectful about it I think you'll find that you can learn a lot from the people here.  I surely have.

^Or raving lunatic Rush fanboys!

I'm exactly like Stegor above, it kind of bums me out when I see endless replies in the political sections on here (probably because a lot of it relates to US politics that doesn't concern me `down under' much! ), but I respect how important and fascinating it is to plenty of others.

But I'll see you all pretty much everywhere else!

I'm with Stegor too.

I've been here for over 8 years. I don't follow stuff everyday like a 'lunatic' (hehehe) but, most of the time you have nice folks and I've found many nice reviewers that you can pay attention to what they write.

But, of course you have the fanboys, the followers of trends and the ones 'you don't know what you're talking about'.

JUst like mentioned before, take a look in which thread you're going and you'll have funand good conversations :D

You get a bunch of disparate people together on an open forum with relatively few restrictions (the restrictions there are, are there for a purpose ) & you get arguments, debates, friendships, fall-outs & the whole gamut of human expression - combine this with the internet phenomenon of the keyboard-hero & voila!

Stegor wrote: What I really appreciate about this forum is that the topics are clear and organized and it's oh-so-easy to avoid the political ones (which I do) because they are specified as such

Perfectly put

I personally am offended by the insinuations made by the OP. This is ridiculous and the thread should be closed.

Dunno, I've been here eight years and have always felt this is one of the more civil forums in the digisphere.  But like several people have already said it you have to pick and choose what conversations you want to get involved with and which folks you want to hang out with.

easily offended liberals' doesn't that make you not very liberal?