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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8684455" data-attributes="member: 177">So, one path to understanding many of the behaviors that annoy you is this:  remember that under the veneer of civilization, the community is basically a bunch of monkeys with cell phones.  Lots of the toxic behaviors you see have their roots in basic tribal primate behaviors, which, alas, were optimized for smallish face-to-face groups, not for large communities with semi-anonymous telecommunications.You also probably wouldn't believe how often people fail to recognize that they could have expressed the same opinion with slightly different words, and avoided the problem.  The moment you blame someone else is the moment when you maximize your own ability to screw up the situation.</blockquote>