Moving the Discovery Forums closer to the light

[Lounge-Lizard]

If you want to make this a nicer place for people, its the attitudes of people that need to be improved.

On computer game fourms, a number of people will have the attitude that they want to prove themselves smarter/tougher/more powerful than others. Generally not an unasual thing for boys between 13 and 25, or for some boys older than 25.

As long as people like to post stuff like:

"I R bettah, ur a noob, ur a lolwutt, I R smarter dan u, I know english bettah dan u, my powa is bigger dan urs, mah powaful fwiends will shoot u with their RL machine gunz, my join date and post number iz higha",

who ever hears that will hate them back, even if what they say is not against forum rules and even if its accepted by the general server population.

Some people manage to say these things without breaking server rules, by using irony, ridicule, friend support, and they will get off without ever getting much critisism from anyone.

But at the end of the day, even if done in a subtle manner, this is the sort of thing that creates the hatred. So maybe thats what people look out for in their own posts, or what the mods and admins might want to look out for when looking over people's shoulders.