taste differs, so there will be always someone who don't like your posts. just focus on the fact that there are many people who like your posts

Dude, thats just fucked up.

Edit- Well OP if you cant handle your anger and its getting to you then I say take a step back from the forums and maybe come back after a little while. At the end of the day its just the internet and people act stupid online but offline they wouldnt do what they do here or anywhere else. Its actually interesting to read up on internet culture and behavior and compound that with forums and there cultures. Wish you luck.

Well, I`m not as long in this forum as many others, but in the time since I signed up on GOG I`ve noticed that -especially in the last few months- there have come a lotta people to the forum which are not those kind of people I want to see here. In the last few months there have been many threads full of hatred and anger and puns and all that.
Maybe the reason is that GOG has grown very much in the last months, especially since the release of Witcher 3.
It`s sad to see how the forum has changed. It used to be a good and funny community, full of crazy -in a good way- people. Sad that some of the "old" members now retire from the forum. But I can understand that some of us don`t feel really comfortable with the way the forum is going now, especially with all those kiddies storming the castle now.
I hope that the old members don`t let themselves pushed away by those kiddies and that they stay here and help us too keep at least a little bit of the coolness and culture we had in this forum.

Taking a break is always a perfectly viable choice when you're not having fun but running away doesn't solve anything imho. Why? Because it's our ego that makes us argue with others. We all have an ego, without it we wouldn't have a personality. The only way to get rid of ego is a frontal lobotomy. With a full frontal lobotomy, you would only be able to play a fraction of games, Torchlight for example.
So the solution is not removing ourselves from others but to just work on ourselves, that's what I intend to do and that's all one can do really. But it's a lot already. In that regard, enjoy your break and we'll be seeing you around when the Fenixp rises from the ashes!

"A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day." :)

Imho it's not about not descending to the level of the other person, it's about not descending to our own lowest level which is even harder, at least that's what I've come to realize via self-reflection. Now I only have to put this realization into practice... :)

Coming to think about it, it's still very easy to stay clear of trouble around here if one follows the following unwritten rules:

1.) Don't voice an opinion about politics
2.) Don't voice an opinion about religion
3.) Stay away from the GamerGate vs SJW thread
4.) Don't create friend finding threads or "need help with Teh Wintchner 3" threads in the general forums

By categorically avoiding threads of this nature, one will generally avoid feeling annoyed and have no problems. There are plenty of awesome threads that get far too little attention, e.g the Draw and Guess the Game thread. There are plenty of great threads so I often ask myself, why can't we resist partaking in the toxic ones? It's not easy. It's never a battle against others that we win or lose, only a battle against ourself.

Most of the great people I know here don't post in the forums a lot, they do exist though! Just because toxic threads create more noise (always have, always will) doesn't mean it's all going down the drain.
Imho one good person can outweigh the presence of 10 bad ones because quality > quantity. We can't change other people but we can work on ourselves, and as I wrote above that's what I'm intending to do because there sure is room for improvement.

The server costs would go down if the forum was exclusively full of one-liners :)

That would be darkly ironical, seeing as gamers used to be a close-knit brotherhood that defied the BS antisocial system of high school together, not against each other. Then again, the demographics were different back in the 90s so there's that.
Even the PC gamers vs console gamers feuds were mild and I remember that most arguments ended in playing games on the systems of the enemy. I usually said Playstation sucks vs my PC, Dreamcast sucks vs my PC etc and then spent hours playing with people on their consoles because they were so keen on proving that consoles were better :)

I respect your decision to leave. But you have an awful lot of good reputation to leave behind you.

Perhaps you just need to upgrade to asshole armour +2? It withstands an upsetter sword +1 any day.

not better
just different and just as valid there is a place for all platforms

Sorry to see you cutting back, you've been a fixture on these forums since the beginning. I can certainly understand your feelings, though, having felt similarly a couple years ago and cutting back my own posting significantly as a result. However, I'm not all that sure that it's the forums that have changed, but rather it may just be us as individuals who are changing, gaining a greater awareness of how many of the discussions we engage in end up going and seeing that direction as something we're no longer happy with. So I guess another way you might look at it is that you're just evolving as a person (hopefully towards something you're more happy with), and in the future you may find a different way to take part in the GOG community that's more enjoyable for you.

Sorry, Fenixp. Hopefully a short break from the forums will help, and that we'll see you back soon!

Sorry to see you reducing your participation to the community, but I - unfortunately - understand that.

Gog has been changing. Part of it for the better, part of it for the worse. The community is changing too. And we; feeble creature, change too. I'm also much less active in the community that I'd ideally would . But that's due to having very little free time and energy left after a job change.

Wish you the best !

Ah, that sucks. But things are definitely on a downward trend here.

There are some things GOG could easily implement to improve matters, but those things have been suggested since day one and there's never been the slightest indication that they ever will change the way the forums operate. Which ultiamtely means the changes that do occur will be universally negative. We're all on borrowed time here.

Take your time elsewhere, play some games ; changing habits is a sane thing. Just know we'll gladly see you come back later - if memory loss don't get the better of the old grumps around.
I think the magic of the place ( a.k.a some form of 'us') takes time to operate. Too much changes and a big influx of new people seems to put a strain on that. So I am not fatalist about the changes, more about the avalanche effect.

That's why Steam has group chats. If we had to be around every user there all of the time with no filters then it'd be pretty hellish. It'll be a long while before GOG can implement some IRC thing into Galaxy, or even add a "ignore posts from user" feature.

Also...I see you didn't leave any tuna cans for us. You really meant "all the fish". :O

There was that old theory that every site that achieves a certain level of popularity myspaces. Which I suppose would be better described as facebooks now. Either way, like you say, once there are too many* people that sense of community becomes lost. Especially if that influx is quite rapid. That is something we've noticed over the years, sure.

There have been benefits. The NMA wankers have long since pissed off back to their bile soaked basements. Something I considered a huge boon. But other than that there has definitely been a steady erosion of the community.

*how ever many that may prove to be.

Although there have been quite few "good news" during the last months...

Sorry to read you feel that way, Fenixp. Your contributions have always been welcome.
Anyway, enjoy your time off; and hope to see you around the game specific forums.:)