Tbf this is one of the best social media threads to hang out. People are generally supportive and interested in what each other has to say and what they are doing? It’s hard to see this as a toxic environment or why it would be?
Because we all have views that aren't compatible with others on the site, and at times we get snarky with one another.
But one of the reasons I think it’s rarer here (from my experiences so far) is that we all know we’ll bump into each other again.
Yeah, this ain't Facebook, and that's great
Yeah, but that by itself isn't toxic. Disagreement, even spirited disagreement, isn't a bad thing. When it gets to name-calling and accusations of ignorance and bad faith, then it's a bad thing. But that's more the exception than the norm here.
Copy this. Simon and I regularly engage in popcorn threads with banter about penguins and ships passing, and me not giving a toss about his blessed constitution, but that's because we're both opinionated bastards with nothing better to do than entertain the masses. It's what we do. But we only do it for the joust, and the next queen's handkerchief, and there's always the secret handshake.
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Quite right. I feel just the same way. And I feel that way with 90+% of the people I disagree with here. It's not personal.Copy this. Simon and I regularly engage in popcorn threads with banter about penguins and ships passing, and me not giving a toss about his blessed constitution, but that's because we're both opinionated bastards with nothing better to do than entertain the masses. It's what we do. But we only do it for the joust, and the next queen's handkerchief, and there's always the secret handshake.
Carry on
And the sub ten-percent, in my case, are on Ignore, so I never have to know what they're saying (which is usually the same old same old - I can tell that from the surrounding posts, where new forum players arrive at the same conclusion).
Not too sure about that being more of an exception. Not in my experience here, at least.
Never meant to imply that it was. I think I was trying to say that, if I remember the topics that have been mulled over on these threads. here are worse things than tasteless stories and even school shooters. Not that those aren't bad too; just trying to give some perspective. Nikolas Cruz killed seventeen people in Florida in about twenty minutes; probably more than seventeen people died every second on The Somme or at Antietam.
Joking, gun, just joking.
If there is ever a contest for most poetic one-sentence description, you've got my vote.
Yes, I did sort of get that. These rants can be the bane of my time on AH. I should just go the grocery store and post office now.
Black holes aren’t magnetic - oh, sorry it was next door that ordered the science lesson - my bad!
No, they attract everything, just like me.
A mouth that produces honey would be awesome
