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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 4891138" data-attributes="member: 7808">This is far from the first time this has happened, but it's the first time that it's happened when I actually have the time to post a mini-rant about it, so here goes...I was reading this thread today - <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/260524-whats-worst-type-encounter-you-hate-write-up.html" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/260524-whats-worst-type-encounter-you-hate-write-up.html</a> - when I was struck by the rancor in posts #3 and #7.  This is a thread that started out completely edition-neutral, and within the first 10 posts has two utterly scathing, flame-baiting, edition-war style posts with practically no back up or comments worth discussing.  It is worth noting that (most) posts like this are in not bad enough to warrant Moderator intervention, but they are also posts that do practically nothing to further discussion of any topic.  These are the type of comments that have led to the edition war bans, and are what lead people to thinking that ENWorld is a hostile, unhappy place.  It's well veiled thread crapping; it's hatred seething out in a socially acceptable manner.  Posts like this are not limited to one side or the other, and they come from both newbies and members that have been here for years.  I would also like to pat kitsune9 on the back for post 14, where (s)he takes what started as mindlessness, and built on it with a good story, a good examples, a mild tone, and a sense of humor.  This type of post is what first made me love ENWorld, and what makes me keep coming back (despite the fact that I game pathetically little these days).So I guess what I'm trying to say here is that the next time we have to put up with a ban on edition wars, or have to actively discuss how to moderate and sort this type of thing in the Meta forum, realize that it's not the big threads with multiple bans that are the problem; the real problem is all the little snark that infiltrates every corner to the community.  Start paying closer attention to the one liner posts like this that infiltrate otherwise neutral threads.  Try not to make them, and try not to let them kindle the flames of a larger problem./soap box</blockquote>

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