Basically this.
It's pretty easy to stay away from all the negativity if you want to. All you have to do is to stay away from the Drama and Off-Topic section. Most other topics are fine, with the possible exception of some Clan threads and some General Discussion threads.
Even in these areas people can be very cordial, respectful and intelligent too.
It just so happens that there are those topics and posters who primarily stick to insults and being cruel and immature to each other.
But, that happens all the time when you get people together (
especially young-ish teenagers) and give them somewhere where they have basically free reign to talk about and discuss whatever they like.
Which is the Off-Topic Board and all it's sub-boards.
And bearing in mind that the Drama section is purely designed for arguing with each other.
Most forums I've seen that have no form of Off-Topic discussion and have one primary subject they revolve around (like games) are probably what you would call quite calm and nice.
Other forums where they have setups like ours, tend to be somewhat more aggressive.
But It's not a bad thing. It's not abnormal, and it's to be expected. We're no more aggressive than any other forum with similar sorts of boards.
We get our rude/angry posts/topics, but we also get our nice ones. And we do have rules that keep people somewhat in line.
Even our more obscure and unwritten rules are generally well known since everyone repeats them all the time.
