lostforever
SasqWatch
Well, there is such a thing as oversensitivity creating the illusion of a bigger problem.
I've been on countless forums, and the Watch was always - by a country mile - the most laidback and tolerant of diversity of all the gaming forums I've frequented.
Now, do note that such is simply my perception - and I can't enter the minds of other members.
I've been to forums where there's certainly more "politeness" on the surface - like on QT3 forums, but if you dig a little deeper, you notice a severe lack of tolerance for outsiders and there's a lot of unspoken rules that seem to support certain "high ranking" members on that site.
To me, that kind of deceit and let's-pretend-to-be-amiable is much worse.
So, I definitely think this place made a turn for the worse when they tried to regulate certain behavior.
Like I said, it became a little nauseatingly woke in that way.
But, as I said, moderating is a hard job - and I don't envy anyone trying to police human behavior.
I think watch has always been liberal/left wing but in the past we had more right/conservative posters so it appeared as more balanced. Since most of the right/conservative posters has left, it sort of feels like "nauseatingly woke" now.
What I meant about polarisation was that, as we spent more time on the internet, we are interacting with more people and getting into debates and arguments with people lot more over silly and trivial stuff. As you said before, this is very exhausting and people tend leave and maybe find places which are in keeping with their views so they having less fights hence polarisation of views.
Right/conservative posters moved on to different places so whats left is liberal/left wing poster here so watch feel woke.
Also its not just politics also same applies to issues about gaming points too. For example the other thread about turn based v real time etc.
Things are getting polarised in everything....