Free access to information also means free access to disinformation. Whether forums such as these are radicalizing for any given individual depends on his or her abilities to valuate facts and opinions, not on the amount of trolls or genuinely radical posters. If anything, trolls aid those of higher intellect by exposing those who would rather jump to conclusions before considering the intent behind each post that they read and thereby use to shape their lesser opinion.
This of course also means that in the event that forums also radicalize the gaming population as a whole, then the forums themselves are not to blame. Doing so would be akin to blaming guns for warfare and mass shootings, when the truth is that both are just tools used by different people to express themselves.
As for the OP's second question: No, I am not one of those whose opinion has been radicalized from forum exposure.
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