- Sun Nov 09, 2014 2:14 pm
#40180
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Spot on.
I've worked on (and continue to to for) sites where both the people who created them, and the people they were set up to talk about, have come to actively hate them.
I have been told by bands what they actually think of the people who post on their forums, both individually and as a whole, and I was once asked to tell an entire forum dedicated to one artist that none of them would be welcome at any of their future shows. Recently, Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs/Twilight Singers personally told one "fan" to never buy a single record of his ever again - the internet pushes everyone to exasperation, and sometimes it looks cruel when one person is singled out in such a way but that's what happens when people don't think.
Entitlement runs rife - just because there's a space to say something, it doesn't mean that anyone should just pipe up with any old crap that occurs to them without putting their brain into gear first and thinking "is there a better way to express this?"
Freedom of speech is a big deal, and just because this is a semi-private forum, those freedoms are still respected - nobody has been banned, nobody has been censored, instead unconstructive "debate" is challenged and called out. And if posters can only respond with insults and childish language that insinuates that they are not prepared to civilly back up their own personal attacks, then it's a lot easier to leave here and find a forum that suits you better than it was to sign up.
