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I found a while back that one one hand arguments had become too nitpicky, that the line-by-line dissections had become too focused on sniffing out miniscule mistakes and attacking them rather than disputing the other 95% of the post that was completely valid, and on the other hand, certain people had become overly emotional and others decreasingly rational while arguing heated issues.
Facts started to give way to blind ideology, small groups and individuals were shouted down by larger groups, and those with less popular opinions were backed into a corner where they had no choice but to back out of the argument or lash out at those who were trying to overpower them. People would find anything that sounded authoritative and agreed with them and wave it at others, regardless of veracity or rationality.
Long story short, it degraded into the kind of place where arguing replacecd debate and went from my favorite forum to somewhere that I had very little interest in participating.
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