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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7953971" data-attributes="member: 22779">[USER=6716779]@Zardnaar[/USER] - I just want to say a big thank you and kudos for not taking what I said personally.  It really wasn't meant as a shot.  Although, fair enough, it certainly wasn't flattering.  But, you took it with very good grace.  Thank you.------Just to elucidate the difference between discussion and toxicity for a moment.  Let's stick with Star Trek Discovery as an example.  Someone might say that they don't like the new Klingon design because they liked the old design better.  Ok, fair enough.  That's pretty much the end of the conversation.  There's not a whole lot else to discuss.  Where it becomes toxic is this:((After EVERY SINGLE episode of ST<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />isco))Fan 1:  Hey did you see it?  It was pretty cool how character A did that thing with the thing to that other thing.Fan 2:  Yeah, I dunno, seemed kinda lame.  I wish they wouldn't use that other thing so much.Fan 3:  NEW STAR TREK KLINGONS SUCK!Fan 1:  ....Fan 2:  ....Fan 3:  They only made the new Klingons for changes sake.  Totally unnecessary.  It's such crap.Fan 1:  Uhh, there wasn't even a Klingon in that last episode.Fan 3: NEW KLINGONS SUCK!!...That's how you go from discussion to being toxic.  When someone is unremittingly negative and attempts to turn every single conversation into another cesspool of bile so they can endlessly bitch and whine about whatever thing in fandom they happen not to like, THAT'S toxic.And unfortunately, when some perfectly unsuspecting person happens to trot out the exact same talking points as the troll, well, they get painted green too.  Which, I suspect, happens more often than not.</blockquote>

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