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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mistergone" data-source="post: 825248" data-attributes="member: 9647">I can see where Belen is coming from. I also detect a lot of snobbery on these boards. And not just game related. But I think that's people in general. There is a seterotype that reads and posts on messageboards that's very ture in many ways. I'm not above it. I get pissed and respond negatively to threads. (My hate of D&D Modern know no limit!) But it's really all on my end, not other people's, 'cause I choose how I react. I won't go off into my theories how people sometimes react because of basic common human instincts. For me, it's a balance. I come to ENWorld to get some things out of it that I like, and try really hard to avoid the stuff that I know will annoy me.I have noticed that some people are really thin-skinned. In fact, I'd describe the tone of the boards overall as "tread lightly". There's a lot more of a "play nice" vibe here than say, RPGnet, which is one of the only other boards I read. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I also notice here, "troll" or not, that a lot of people are really combative, and seem to be constantly defying people to challenge their views. Maybe these are just the sickos that like to argue.And that brings to mind another thing. A LOT of people are really quick to cry "troll", but then they go on to get pulled into the thread later. It's funny to me how some people seem so smug at first then get pulled down into a crazy stupid argument because they just can't hold themselves above it. I thought this thread would be like that, every time I see that Eric Noah has posted to a thread, I check to see if the thread has been locked. Usually, there's a couple posts right after the first with folks being kinda smug about how cool they are for detecting a thread that's gonna be shut down. Nothing really wrong with that, but it seems to me that it just harbors more bad karma.Overall, I can't really be outraged or shocked at any of the "elitist" behaviour. A lot of people that are the online community types are very clique-ish while at the same time holding their own self-interests above all others. And sometimes they're not. Just like real life, but with less social concequence. Go into a comic book store and listen to some comic fans talk about their favorite comics. The "Comic Book Guy" character from the Simpson's wasn't just pulled out of thin air. No, not all comic book fans are like that. I read comics, and I don't particularly see myself as that stereotype. (plus, I have tattoos! big ones! they make me cool, damnit!) But a lot of the time, and I won't of course mention names, I can TOTALLY hear Comic Book Guy's voice when I read certain people's posts.ENWorld: The comedy is free.</blockquote>

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