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(11-11-2021, 01:21 AM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Fair enough, but I think more can be done. Responding to toxicity with more toxicity has never...ever worked on here. Or the other boards. I've been around since February of 2011. The old boards always had hater/homer debates too. Things always seem at their worst when the so-called positive people become just as toxic as the people they claim to rail against.

I've stood up against negativity a few times recently, but there's only so much you can do or say to stop it. Eventually we need to realize that the only people we can control is ourselves. I keep repeating this phrase, but it usually falls on deaf ears: Be the change you want to see.

If you're truly a positive person, then it will show through your actions. You won't argue for 20 pages and match toxicity with toxicity. You'll just keep being positive. If we had enough people like that, I think the tides would start to change on here.

I don't remember it being so toxic when the board started. There was some back and forth as you would expect, but it seems like the last year or so has elevated it to a place like never before. In that time I've seen posters go to levels like never before (I know I'm guilty of it too) but I still don't know what really started to drag it all down so much. Covid and too much free time? All the Twitter experts? 

It's weird it didn't used to be like this.