Originally Posted by rat

What I do find overwhelmingly off-putting by this forum and this community of which I've been a part for the past couple years, is the increasing occurence of people posting with an extreme superiority complex, taking potshots at people whom they've never met, whose shoes they've never walked in, and speaking from the vantage of internet anonymity. I find it disgusting, and completely against the published code of conduct of these forums. The entire point of this community is to be one of acceptance, discourse, and making an attempt to understand people from their own perspective not from our own. It's been one of the things I used to truly enjoy about this community, and something that has been alarmingly lacking over the last months I've been lurking. I think a lot of you need to get off your high horses, think before you post, and when in doubt take Hal's advice--don't like what you read, hit the back button rather than making snide remarks.

Know that some of what I say may seem snotty to y'all, but this community has been self-regulating to a good degree for the time I've been here. I'm not claiming to be better than anyone here, just that some of us out here see parts of this community becoming "just another web forum" instead of a special place we enjoy posting.