Opinion: <---- This needs to stop.

[Veknoid_Outcast]

pokoko said:

Veknoid_Outcast said:

Well said. At this point I'd welcome overt aggression. At least it would give opponents something to hold on to.

All this passive-aggressive garbage is so easy to hide behind, because one can claim ignorance. You try to wrap your hands around it and it evaporates into thin air.

Yeah, it just leads to a domino effect.

Reminds me of a story I once read by someone who moved to Japan.  They said stressed out salarymen would passive aggressively bump into people on the street, then those people would passive aggressively bump into other people on the street.  That's what this forum is like sometimes.  Someone intentionally bumps into a lot of people, hides behind the "opinion" shield, then some of those people go out looking for revenge by doing the same thing.

That's actually a perfect analogy.

I was saying this to GNM yesterday: most of the people on this site are well-meaning, accepting people. But there are a few bad apples who stir up trouble with a purposefully provocative post. Provoked, those well-meaning people fire back. Then other normally civil people fire back at them. And then it all goes to hell.