I'm not going emo, but I *have* noticed recently via forum searches every one of my threads with controvesy/debate ends up in the same place.

Conversely, most threads haven't been going to that place in recent years. We're deleting many fewer posts, and the ban list is short. My interpretation has been that most players have learned that it's not productive to be a jackass, and that being reasonable makes your point more clear. If you're ranting and raving, my time is important to me and I'm finding other things to read.

And if the forum community turns into 100 reasonable people and two jackasses, the overall utility of the discussions tends to go up by simply removing the two jackasses.

edit: i think maybe its because im right about most things most of the time, its hard to understand why people disagree

It may be hard to understand because you're exhausting your neurons trying to be, uh, clever and mashing the shift key. Responding to the content of people's posts will force you to think about what they are saying.

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