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IME, people are less willing to pursue disagreement based discussion FTF, often out of fear of violence/harm, be that social, verbal or...

Neurodivergency is also much tougher to recognize or differentiate in a written forum than in a face to face or even over the phone...

Your expectations are in fact, unreasonable. There was a time when I believed what you did. It made people unhappy. So rather than...

I want to drill a little bit more into this. MGibster, if you haven't noticed... you don't live on the Planet Vulcan. Expecting folks...

I think the logic for having it mutual by default is stronger, because the block is probably less about opinions, and more about...

no boards I've partcipated on since about 1999 has it been mutual, including the ones I've been a moderator on. The person muting is the...

I'd also like to note that putting a smiley/wink/tongue out emoticon doesn't make up for you being a jerk in your postings.

It's actually been great for making me realize how many American names, even outside of Southern California, are originally from Spanish.

There are a number of threads where I see replies w/o quotes, and the page is like 4 replies long......it isn't just new people, but...

True discussion is inherently conflict-laden, because it's about attempting to find a path forward through an inherent disagreement...

I don't consider the transfer of information to explain or elucidate to be a discussion. More of a lecture or a teaching session...

I find value in conversations even if the other person is not willing to change their mind, because the act of discourse will help...

But these are not the problem community members they were talking about who are negative only, without constructive criticsm. The...

It shouldn't warrant it, but it would still need it. There are quite a few people who simply cannot abide anything even remotely...

Mouse Guard is I believe the answer to Jess' question - or at least it would be if I asked the question of "the first game I think about...