Maybe it’s just me, maybe I’m just noticing it more, but there’s been a loooooooooooooot more bitchiness, name-calling, pointing-of-fingers and so on lately than I’ve noticed in months or years past. It kinda saddens me, honestly, but it also makes me curious.
I’m probably asking for a whooping here, but why are y’all seemingly so angry lately?
Yeah, but you’re Rob Merritt, Opposite Man, so actually it has.
Seriously, go back and look at the posts from Met_K, or Dr. Crypt, or any of the endless parade of insanity that was Koontz, or one of Bill’s classic rants, or Cleve’s race-baiting, etc. etc.
I’m not entirely sure that mean is the right word, because I honestly never felt that Qt3 ever piled on anybody who didn’t sincerely deserve it. But this place felt sharper five or seven years ago.
It was always like this, even back in the blue board days. I might even get motivated to dig up some examples, but probably not. It was more close-knit then because there were a lot fewer active posters, but there was conflict. Heck, most original posters were veterans of Usenet, where the book was written on sniping jackassery. I like to think that we escaped Usenet, but we didn’t build the Shangi-La you’re talking about.
Maybe you’re confusing Q23 with Gone Gold, where everybody hugged each other on a daily basis.