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Originally Posted by VonDondu In the game forums, the members are always happy to help newcomers and listen to their input. I have posted a lot of messages in SYM as well, and I had no idea it was so much different in SYM. |
I think "help" forums will always be different in tone than discussion forums, or even more specific, "help" threads will be different than discussion threads. Remeber when technical support was a part of SYM, you could then se the same helpfulness in those threads as you could in the game oriented ones. I think its just that in any discussion (SYM or otherwise) people will only show "positive attitude" towards input that is meaningsfull and sensible to them. Not neseccary in agreement with their view but it has to make sense on some level. There are bound to be confllicts on both types of forums as well, but the importance of politics is generarly greater than the importance of game features, and so debates are more likely to be heated there.
This however is not a problem imo.
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I have always had the feeling that other members regard GB as a "community", but I regard it "merely" as an internet message board.
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Agree very much with this. Seeing it as a message board helps to escape a few unrealistic ideas of what one should expect when posting here.