@sc: Comicvine is some of the nicest people I have ever met. Sure we disagree but I have yet to have anyone death threat me or vice versa. Where is my cookie?
I guess as a mod you get a more consistent view of the darker side of the site.
Not even just the nicest, Comicvine has some of the best people I have ever met. Creative, intelligent, witty, friendly, I met by best friend at CV, it has amazing and incredible people. Thats the point, CV is a website filled with different individuals, some of us have similarities, some of us diverge on different matters. Some of us are friendly towards different atheists, Christians, agnostics, Muslims users, Deists (I know a great user for each category at least) some of 'us' categorize users by what characters they like and assign negative or positive ratings on them just for that. Death threats are actually simple and idiotic trolling.
The term "Social Justice Warrior" has to be one of the silliest terms around. I hear it justified because the "alt left" accuse people who use the term of being racist and sexist, and yeah, that sucks, if you like say original 616 Nick Fury over Ultimates Nick Fury and someone accuses you of being racist. Its better to just point out they are being unfair, or presumptuous, accusatory. All sorts of straight to the point counterclaims. Except some people aren't satisfied because they feel insulted and need to "win" back or throw out a new popular insult. Like more than half the time someone in Battles tells someone else to calm down, its usually the person saying that that needs to calm down. People who legitimately are calm and trying to relax the environment, are a bit friendlier and patient, empathetic. When all people do is throw around accusations, many never seem to realize that it tends to betray their own sensitivity. Imagine a website where 100 percent of the people constantly threw accusations at everyone else, and then at the end of the day each thought they won and everyone else was triggered.
Us vs Them mindsets don't work well in the real world (well there are some situations it can work well) or in situations where you actually need to work productively. Mind you its not just a website thing, its a general life issues.
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