I agree ... I stick to the national threads most of the time, because it appears this is where the grownups play. Here it appears that name calling and bad mouthing is keep to a minimum, and the MOD's I assume set and require a civil tone of discussion where even if someone disagrees with my opinion they disagree in a respectful way.
I totally agree - in local threads 10-12 people dominate and posts on everything, because anyone offering a contrary opinion is immediately attacked. the MOD's actually encourage the angry tone with statements like "our community seems to be enjoying the discussion" which really means we are having a ball flaming you, you jerk off - how dare you post in our community, and in the community I am thinking of the MOD's actually do much of the attacking. I have even been threatened by several MOD's ... oh the threats were carefully couched in subtlety, so as to not break board rules, but they were definitely threats. It is like these MOD's have decided that adult discussion is boring and if we are not screaming and yelling at each other it isn't fun. And there are always the little children that love to get off on making people angry. So, I guess we vote by not participating locally and when someone looks into the logs and sees new posters are being chased off by 10 or 12 people they will intervene and make corrections by place new mods in their place, or they look and decide their happy and we move on to some other service that is more mature. In the end I doubt if this thread will change anything, because most of those that feel like me are to afraid to post and the 10 or 12 will be along shortly to call me and idiot ... Originally Posted by 5T3V3
I totally agree!!! Well said.