It seems to have carmed down again recently. But there was a few months were its seemed nearly every post had someone shouting someone else down or being negative for the sake of it.
I know its always been like that here, maybe just noticed it more recently as been feeling down so maybe negativity was more apparent as had more of an effect. That make sense ?
Online "Anonymous" forums (like this) are weird.
It's sometimes difficult to maintain order without being called "censor" or "nazi" or even "anti-Christ" (I always LOVED that one). What I learned over the years of running Amiga.org is fairly simple. Even wonderful, saintly people who inhabit online forums tend to adopt a "group-think" or better stated, a "mob". mentality.
Take the recent cries to forgive Doomy for example. One guy brings up a valid point about us going to the other extreme (we do tend to slam on doomy at the slightest mention of his name) and we all jump on board to decry the poster for it.
Let's face it though, the Amiga situation is not without its' drama. Red versus blue, we versus them, me in a steel cage match with Bill Buck.
The list goes on and it's easy for everyone here to take sides, even though we're all really just after the same thing. A usable, new Amiga without the $2000 pricetag or the outdated PPC hardware. I know, I know. We can't even all agree on that, which just further illustrates my point.
I can't think that my leaving has anything to do with the lightening up of everyone around here. At least I hope not. It's been more a case of no one really driving the bus, and the mods just doing their best to be jovial, to encourage people to have fun, and to contain the madness that is the AO community.
Merry Christmas Dammit.
Wayne
