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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 4628126" data-attributes="member: 957">Interesting.  I've been highly active on the boards for a long time now.  (As with many of us, I was there the day Eric opened his).I have NEVER heard that particular term before you presented it here.I saw serious dispute as you mention.  But what I saw burned less brightly and for a hell of a lot less time.  Not at all the same as this time around.  The magnitude is vastly different.Granted, I also think that a lot of the reason for this difference has nothing to do with 4E or the realtive merits of 3E vs. 4E.  I think that the overall community was a lot more "done" with 2E when 3E came along than was the case with 3E when 4E came along.  Of course, the whole target audience issue is also important.But back to the original point, I saw minimal nerd rage when 3E came out.  Not because it was not there but because I wasn't where that rage could be found.  I didn't (and still don't) frequent a variety of gaming boards.  Eric Noah's / ENWorld are pretty much it for me.  And there was a great deal less rage over 3E here because the foundation of this place was the coming of 3E.  Why is there no blossoming "just for 4e" community site as there was for 3E?</blockquote>