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2016 Postmortem

MuseRider

(35,176 posts)

1. Very true

Reply to Fumesucker (Original post)

Sun Oct 18, 2015, 10:39 AM

Oct 2015

and then we respond from all sides and it becomes a fight. Then we post a post to taunt the other side and they respond and the fight becomes a riot and then we go to war and people get banned or silenced and then we complain about that. Now it almost always starts off as at least a riot and all discussion is done.

Controlling my hair trigger temper around here is very hard but I want to stay so I do control it.

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One big reason for the divisiveness IMO: If you aren't divisive you are talking to yourself [View all] Fumesucker Oct 2015 OP

Very true MuseRider Oct 2015 #1

Your guide to threads that sink is pretty much MineralMan Oct 2015 #2

And yet the most divisive posters tend to post and run. Ironic. Bluenorthwest Oct 2015 #3

Talk about righting the wrongs of our past. PowerToThePeople Oct 2015 #4