So the other day I did something that was mildly regrettable. I read posts at the forum for a video game. The reason this was mildly regrettable was that the forum, for years now has been somewhat known for its toxicity. The sheer levels of hate, vitriol, ignorance, and arrogance rivaled that of many competitive political campaigns.
I am not going to identify the forum because I don't want to bring such negative attention to it, even though I don't think this would reach many people. Besides, even if I could reach a lot of people, nothing would happen. It past a 'call for civility' because it is at the point that the people are deranged enough to probably think they are being civil, or have fallen so deeply into the mob mentality to be unaware of their own words. (Well, being unaware of one's own words is not unique to this forum or any conversation, sadly.)
At least I do know some forums where everyone is nice, helpful, and civil. I'll stick to them.
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