So how much worse have arguements gotten on Enworld?

[billd91]

Arguments themselves aren't bad as long as people are being reasonable and presenting decent arguments. It's when people are being jerks that there's a problem. Sometimes it's pretty clear (and the mods come in with a 3-day ban) but sometimes it just comes from people getting further and further retrenched into their positions and repeating it a few too many times or too stridently to really be polite.
But as long as everyone posts like they aren't taking offense or trying to provoke it, it's usually OK.

I can easily see how a perception that things are more argumentative lately can come up. ENworld is getting pretty big and that means we bring in more people with strong opinions who end up making something of a splash.

 

[Cheiromancer]

Does someone keep track of how many bannings/warnings/thread closures occur over time?

I know that I might have the subjective impression that things are going well, and it's just because I haven't come across threads that are problematic. Alternatively I might think the civility of the boards are decreasing, based on running across two such threads in a row. But this is just random noise; like a fair die rolling well for a while, or poorly. Some objective statistics would help.

Personally I think the "Can monks take INA" threads are the source of all evil; they make people grumpy, and this extends to other threads. We should extend the no politics/no religion rule to monks taking INA, and everything would be fine.

 

[Crothian]

There are always a few trouble makers in the works and as we get more people we get more trouble makers.

 

[Piratecat]

I think Mousferatu (Ari had posted the statement that the OP is referring to) might have just been having a bad, sick day. From my perspective we aren't going through a tough period right now. Things have been pretty calm.

 

[diaglo]

I think Mousferatu (Ari had posted the statement that the OP is referring to) might have just been having a bad, sick day. From my perspective we aren't going through a tough period right now. Things have been pretty calm.

great. now i've got the line "eye of the hurricane" from "it's the end of the world as we know it" running thru my head as a theme song.

 

[Cor Azer]

Realized you were gone? Heck, I've used your name for a psychotic Warforged BBEG in my Eberron Campaign! Of course I noticed! Welcome back!

I didn't notice you were back until just now, though...

A BBEG? But... I'm such a nice, kind fellow. ~I just might have to start an argument over that

And to be fair, I've only been back a week or so - I wanted to lurk for a while to get caught up on the latest "in" topics

 

[Mouseferatu]

I think Mousferatu (Ari had posted the statement that the OP is referring to) might have just been having a bad, sick day. From my perspective we aren't going through a tough period right now. Things have been pretty calm.

Yep. Pretty nasty day yesterday. Ari gets irritable when he doesn't feel well.

I'll admit, I do have the impression that we've been in an "argument-heavy" period for a little while, and have since before I got sick yesterday. But I'm prepared to acknowledge that it may just be a combination of bad luck and perception on my part, with the whole "sick thing" pushing it over the top.

 

[Michael Morris]

The only thing that's gotten worse is the spam, and that's not even particularly bad.

-- N

You haven't seen the spambot lately have you. Man but it's getting to be one fat turkey.

 

[Storyteller01]

I think Mousferatu (Ari had posted the statement that the OP is referring to) might have just been having a bad, sick day. From my perspective we aren't going through a tough period right now. Things have been pretty calm.

It was actually a comment made by a moderator (in response to mouseF) that prompted the thread. I can see us users having a bad day, but when mods notice an increase...

 

[Joshua Randall]

I heard about this great feature whereby you simply don't read the threads that annoy you. I think it was called "willpower", or something like that.