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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 2934842" data-attributes="member: 32740">ENworld posts under this name 360.&nbsp; Wizards posts under this name 210 in the same time frame (about a year).&nbsp; Guess that makes me a lurker, but I don't consider myself a lurker so much as someone who doesn't find a lot of threads that require his opinion at either location.Over at Wizards I stick to scanning the general, What's a GM to do, and What's a player to do categories and ignore the rest.&nbsp; Certainly as far as those go I find the bulk of the posters to be far less mature both in age and general attitude, and with MUCH worse spelling and grammar.&nbsp; I guess I still read/post there only to help the clueless noobs with the gift of my superior wisdom and cool.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; I certainly don't go there expecting stimulating, intelligent debate though that does still happen every once in a while.What rankles me more is the more stringent restrictions on post content.&nbsp; Not so much heavy-handed enforcement as arbitrary I guess.&nbsp; Understandable given their heavy traffic and younger-skewing demographics that they would go beyond &quot;grandma-friendly&quot; to aiming at complete innocuousness, but it does help make their boards community actually less palatable, not more.&nbsp; It seems to have created a core community with a much less egalitarian attitude regarding playing styles and rules interpretation.&nbsp; Contrary views are &quot;not official&quot; and therefore tend to be considered invalid by default, and fewer posters have the maturity to engage in debating the contrary without rancor so alternate views are again more easily dismissed as it's more difficult to maintain a friendly debate.Just MHO.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 2934842, member: 32740"] ENworld posts under this name 360. Wizards posts under this name 210 in the same time frame (about a year). Guess that makes me a lurker, but I don't consider myself a lurker so much as someone who doesn't find a lot of threads that require his opinion at either location. Over at Wizards I stick to scanning the general, What's a GM to do, and What's a player to do categories and ignore the rest. Certainly as far as those go I find the bulk of the posters to be far less mature both in age and general attitude, and with MUCH worse spelling and grammar. I guess I still read/post there only to help the clueless noobs with the gift of my superior wisdom and cool. :) I certainly don't go there expecting stimulating, intelligent debate though that does still happen every once in a while. What rankles me more is the more stringent restrictions on post content. Not so much heavy-handed enforcement as arbitrary I guess. Understandable given their heavy traffic and younger-skewing demographics that they would go beyond "grandma-friendly" to aiming at complete innocuousness, but it does help make their boards community actually less palatable, not more. It seems to have created a core community with a much less egalitarian attitude regarding playing styles and rules interpretation. Contrary views are "not official" and therefore tend to be considered invalid by default, and fewer posters have the maturity to engage in debating the contrary without rancor so alternate views are again more easily dismissed as it's more difficult to maintain a friendly debate. Just MHO. [/QUOTE]

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