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Originally Posted by Morrus  The only answer might be for EN World to stop trying to accomodate everyone and plant a flag firmly one way or the other, ensuring a more harmonious membership more in tune with each other. |
Seriously? I don't know if being moderators pushes the worst of the site in your face, but personally, this is the most civil RPG messageboard I've found that also has a large wealth of edition neutral material. I don't know about others, but the edition war vehemence seems pretty rare, and when it does arise, it's really easy to spot and avoid. The vast majority of what I see on EN World is no different than the civil discussion that has been happening here for years.
Yeah, unfortunately there will be some who will complain about biases (and nearly always biases against them, of course), but I'm quite comfortable believing that they are the minority and the vast majority appears to be people like me who just like to talk D&D and other RPGs. I doubt EN World "picking a side" would increases civility at all, and just drive traffic of those interested in the losing side away. Plus I could see edition neutral discussions being diminshed by everything having the filter of one edition.
Maybe I'm wrong and EN World is made up of more complainers and haters who want to talk about one system only than fans like me that quietly enjoy EN World and don't rant and rave and complain. But planting a flag and choosing a side would make EN World less useful for me, and as the only messageboard I still visit multiple times a day (the nastiness on others have driven me away from them), EN World would lose a lot of use to me, which obviously I'm against.
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