Current Events > Am I tripping or did this place become a lot more toxic in the last 2 months?

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I know that this place has never exactly been a great spot, but does it seem like people are more on edge as of late, or that people are just overall shitting on each other more?

I guess I could be imagining things, or it could be because of the pandemic.

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Seems normal enough to me. For whatever stick you measure normal on CE with anyway.

Maga and laag getting the chop didn't hurt nothing either.

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AldousIsDead posted...

laag

Whats this?(nvm i think you mean tails or whatever)

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AldousIsDead posted...

Seems normal enough to me. For whatever stick you measure normal on CE with anyway.

Maga and laag getting the chop didn't hurt nothing either.

The toilet is spilling into other boards.

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Wii_Shaker posted...

The toilet is spilling into other boards.

Allen had better fail another rollout and flush again as a distraction.

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seems about the same as it's been for the last 8 or so years or whatever
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I would not know. I pretty much instantly ignore anyone who offends me in the slightest by posting irrelevant replies in my threads. So if there is lots of toxicity i am pretty sure i got most of the bad ones. Its not my job to fix people, i have enough of a hard time following the rules myself honestly. Seems like being conservative in the slightest triggers people on this board and the mods just give in and mod posts that are not offensive just to please the libs.

6/3 nevar forget

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Well there's an easy tag.

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Certain users who are now banned have definitely made it seem that way. But they're back on alts ofc

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Definitely not getting better over time.

Been pretty terrible since 2015/2016, tbh.

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DuranOfForcena posted...

you're trippin on a hole in a paper heart

Good song

I feel like people sort of chilled out here once the dust from the election settled down. Most people sort of put political differences aside and came together under the bullshit that the pandemic brought us.

The only really toxic people here are the boot lickers who openly say that some people need to make an unlivable wage, blah blah blah

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One or two guys with a ton of alts come by now and then to stir shit up. Everyone falls for it.



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Par for the course

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Guide posted...

One or two guys with a ton of alts come by now and then to stir shit up. Everyone falls for it.

And they always will, because they'd rather be part of the problem and try to "dunk" on trolls for clout instead of just silently reporting them.

Then again, with users who have used the exact same gimmick for years why would trolls have to try?

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Yeah. I don't think there is any recovering it at thus point.

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A little bit

insults are starting to replace conversations

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People here seem a lot more contrary than before. It seems like no matter what the topic, 8 or 9 of the first 10 responses will be disagreeing with the TC, usually rudely because this is the Internet.

Balrog0 wandered off last week or so, which decreased the aggregate decency.

Things have been ramping up since Trump got elected. Users fell whole-hog into conservative shitposting, other users flew further left in response, and with events like Caution getting unmasked as a racist and the subreddit getting set up by his ilk the userbase has continued to fracture as time goes on.

Over time, you've probably seen more lefty users reach a fever pitch and inhabit a more combative shell whenever you see them - including me. I try to keep a lid on it or isolate it to a single post or topic I want to make, but I get ass-blasted and I hamfistedly post about my virtues - sure. The reason why you might see lefty types of posters fly off the handle a bit more now is because the right wing shitposters post in blocs, actively bait controversy more often than not and are pushing more extreme rhetoric over time alongside the rise of politicians like MTG.

Not to mention the excuse we have for gimmicks - like we have a guy who banks on his own controversy regarding the claim that he met his wife online when she was 14 and he was 19. Anth0ny stopped with his ant thing what feels like years ago now, the WWE gimmick has always posted in a blue moon and goatthief's whole thing stopped being about supposedly stealing everyone's goats in favour of playing into this massive drama machine between Tails and the rest of GameFAQs. The only thing even resembling a gimmick nowadays is the guy who claims to have groomed his wife as a teenager, who derails topics about pedophilia and the age of consent knowing damn well how people are going to respond to his presence in those threads.

I guess I can't say for certain, given I've only been posting regularly since 2016. But I hear what you're saying, and I think this schism you're sensing is the continuing fallout in the wake of America's political radicalisation. The same way people have to contend with anti-maskers and emboldened racist Karens in real life, the past 5 years of polarisation has brewed animosity and extremism in online communities at an unprecedented scale, and it's sending everyone - both MTG-adjacent conservative users/shitposters and jaded leftist users who contend with them - fucking nuts.

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MrMallard might be long winded but he usually has quality posts

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