Bombalurina
Well-Known Member
Hi Geeks,
Sorry to be a bit of a downer, but I can't believe how much SG has changed over recent years. Perhaps I'm viewing things through rose tinted glasses, but I seem to remember place where everyone's opinions were valid, and all geeks seemed to stand together with the view of helping one another out when things got a bit tough.
It seems to me to have recently descended into more and more slanging matches between keyboard warriors than helpful conversations. I come on here and read FAR more posts than I contribute to, simply because I feel if I post my opinion there will be someone who wants to pick it apart. So I read, and click away most of the time. It's fine if someone disagrees, we won't all have the same opinion, but to be aggressive and make people feel small is not acceptable to me. I've had to defend my own opinion on many occasions, when all I am trying to do is encourage high standards in the industry. I can't understand why that's a bad thing?
Where is the friendly helpful advice and welcoming atmosphere? SG is just not a nice place to be anymore. I feel it might be time to delete my profile and leave the aggressive keyboard warriors to it.
Does anyone feel the same way? That they've been shouted down time and time again? Or is it just me?
Sorry to be a bit of a downer, but I can't believe how much SG has changed over recent years. Perhaps I'm viewing things through rose tinted glasses, but I seem to remember place where everyone's opinions were valid, and all geeks seemed to stand together with the view of helping one another out when things got a bit tough.
It seems to me to have recently descended into more and more slanging matches between keyboard warriors than helpful conversations. I come on here and read FAR more posts than I contribute to, simply because I feel if I post my opinion there will be someone who wants to pick it apart. So I read, and click away most of the time. It's fine if someone disagrees, we won't all have the same opinion, but to be aggressive and make people feel small is not acceptable to me. I've had to defend my own opinion on many occasions, when all I am trying to do is encourage high standards in the industry. I can't understand why that's a bad thing?
Where is the friendly helpful advice and welcoming atmosphere? SG is just not a nice place to be anymore. I feel it might be time to delete my profile and leave the aggressive keyboard warriors to it.
Does anyone feel the same way? That they've been shouted down time and time again? Or is it just me?