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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Terramotus" data-source="post: 3933720" data-attributes="member: 7220">Ok, I'm mostly a lurker who occasionally finds useful things to post about or who has the occasional question to ask.  I've been coming to these boards for the same thing I came to Eric Noah's for when 3E was coming out: people dissecting and disseminating information about the new edition, and extrapolating from there what we might see.But there's too much bile being spread for me to effectively find that, and I've found myself compelled to post more often in the last month or so because of it than in a long long time.It seems to me that what I'm seeking should be the default aim of a 4E forum on a D&D news site.  Am I wrong?I come to this forum for information, not to listen to people who presume to tell other people how they must run their game.  And, to me, that's all the anti-4E stuff is - telling me that I shouldn't be running my game a certain way.  I also think it's uncalled for, especially since I haven't seen people verbally defecating all over older editions these past years.  I'm like Tommy Lee Jones from The Fugitive at the dam scene.  "I'm not buying Fourth Edition!"  "I don't care!"And honestly, I do think the "anti-4E" sentiment is responsible for the civility problem.  Because it's easy to ignore someone who's slightly more enthusiastic than you are, but it's hard to ignore someone who thinks that what you're interested in is a lump of garbage.That sentiment isn't going to go away, though.  Not anytime soon.  I think the only solution is one posted earlier in the thread: separate the 4E forum into a Discussion and Opinion forums.  That way, at least, people who are looking for information can stick only to the Discussion forums and not have to deal with the people who want to duel online over which play style is superior.</blockquote>

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