Reply #38: Yep- I agree on all counts. Listen to me though: There is no way this is going to change. [View All]

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This has been going on for a very long time and (you're right) it's been creeping in more and more. The problem is that those who do this habitually (sometimes daily) and who are known for this behavior should be a tip-off of sorts to the fact that nothing's going to happen to them.

I could postulate forever about the causes of this but it would probably be pointless: It just IS. And it's highly doubtful that, at this point, it's going to go away.

I know you remember a different tone at DU, and that's how I like to remember it. Back when the signal to noise and conversation to flame ratio was much, higher.

Now, it's almost like some of these malignant personalities are regular performers on a bizarre stage they've (mostly successfully) turned DU into. It's surreal but then again anything online has the potential to morph like this.

I keep reading DU, though I don't post much anymore for the same reasons you probably don't, because there are still some posters who refuse the crap and continue to post and discuss in a civil, thoughtful way. But mostly, it's become a weird cross between the DU of old and Craigslist (or YouTube comments)- just so much anger...cutting other posters down for sport.

Someone else put it best when they said this place was the "Best political MMO game ever!" And the griefers are out of control.

Or another "It's a place for talkin' and fightin' not doin'......but, talkin' and fightin's fun." So true.