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Originally Posted by Psi_RedEye22 I've been here all of two weeks...and I've seen nothing more than a collaboration of people willing to help each other out no matter what, 99% of the time in a friendly, polite manner. I see mutual interests everywhere, it's an RPG forum after all.
Hmmm..co-operative, friendly folks, helping each other out, with mutual interests...
People, we have a community here! 
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Indeed... that is a reasonable first impression.. and because of the forum rules and the fact that GB is moderated, we are not as prone to the sheer ugly nastiness that is often present on other forums. But Thantor is right, over the past two years there has been an increased disregard for appropriate behaviour between what can certainly be termed 'warning factions.' If you want to see evidence of this, I suggest you do some searching under the terms Iraq and Reagan.... Debates went beyond heated, they became nasty, visceral and all too often... personal. In may cases, very little effort was made to employ tact or diplomacy, and frequently this resulted in tempers flaring... and many highly offensive statements from all quarters...
Which makes me wonder the same question that Thantor asks. Some time ago I posted a thread about net anonymity and expression, because so often people seem to think they can get away with callous disregard for the feelings of others when they post on the net. When I first joined GB, there was very little evidence of this sort of unpleasantness.. but that has changed.... the feeling of community that was so special to GB has, at the very least, become severely eroded....