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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 7321454" data-attributes="member: 12731">If I didn't know better, I'd assume you must be new to EN World. This forum hasn't moderated off-topic posts (generally what you call &quot;toxic&quot;; posts that question the fundamental premise of the thread starter - these posts generally shift the discussion away from what the OP wanted to talk about, to general and pointless arguing about whether you should even do what the OP wanted to talk about) in years <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />Answering questions such as &quot;how do I do X?&quot; with &quot;don't do X, it's a bad idea&quot; is par for the course. Myself, I would have liked such replies to lead to official red text where you are, at absolute minimum, asked to leave the thread, unless the poster makes an effort to back this up with real arguments and is also willing to humor the OP &quot;if you really want to, here are my three suggestions&quot;.Basically, if you see a thread &quot;how do I stop Bards from flying&quot; (or whatever) and your impulse is to say what a stupid idea that is, then you need to start a new thread rather than to poop all over the one you saw: &quot;top 3 reasons Bards need to fly&quot;.This allows the other poster to ignore your thread, and use the forum to discuss with like-minded without having to waste his time defending against accusations his idea is bad. If he is interested in learning more about why he maybe shouldn't press on with his idea he could always look through your thread.I have myself felt greatly discouraged from discussing various subjects here at EN World, chiefly because a small clique opposing my every move. I even had the mods shut one thread down entirely when I could no longer just stand idly by when posters crapped all over my thread.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 7321454, member: 12731"] If I didn't know better, I'd assume you must be new to EN World. This forum hasn't moderated off-topic posts (generally what you call "toxic"; posts that question the fundamental premise of the thread starter - these posts generally shift the discussion away from what the OP wanted to talk about, to general and pointless arguing about whether you should even do what the OP wanted to talk about) in years :( Answering questions such as "how do I do X?" with "don't do X, it's a bad idea" is par for the course. Myself, I would have liked such replies to lead to official red text where you are, at absolute minimum, asked to leave the thread, unless the poster makes an effort to back this up with real arguments [B]and[/B] is also willing to humor the OP "if you really want to, here are my three suggestions". Basically, if you see a thread "how do I stop Bards from flying" (or whatever) and your impulse is to say what a stupid idea that is, then you need to [B]start a new thread[/B] rather than to poop all over the one you saw: "top 3 reasons Bards need to fly". This allows the other poster to ignore your thread, and use the forum to discuss with like-minded [U][I]without having to waste his time[/I][/U] defending against accusations his idea is bad. If he is interested in learning more about why he maybe shouldn't press on with his idea he could always look through your thread. I have myself felt greatly discouraged from discussing various subjects here at EN World, chiefly because a small clique opposing my every move. I even had the mods shut one thread down entirely when I could no longer just stand idly by when posters crapped all over my thread. [/QUOTE]

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