- CrazzySnipe55
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Posted by: True Underdog
Double-Z, your opinion of The Flood isn't really high; would it be fair to say that "civilized by The Flood and BNet's standards" isn't very civilized at all...in your opinion?
Please be honest and consistent with your attitude towards the off-topic board.
Mayday, I'd like to see the day when people can be civilized on this subject and enjoy the boards to their fullest potential but as it stands right now, I don't see that happening. That the early pages of this thread (which isn't even about politics specifically, rather, what constitutes political discussion) had people calling each other names, it doesn't leave me with much faith.I post in The Flood on a regular basis now and my opinion of it has drastically changed but that doesn't change the fact that, in my opinion, some of the louder voices on The Flood can be the most antagonistic, immature, and obnoxious. Say there's a room full of fifty people all discussing, oh, I don't know.... favorite colors. S'pose forty-five of those people are all pleasantly discussing their favorite colors, why they like them, and why they dislike other colors. Also s'pose there's 5 people in the middle of the room vehemently arguing about their favorite colors, calling all the other colors and their appreciators vulgar names, and doing all this at a volume far from what one might consider "inside voices". To a casual passerby of this Color Convention, they're not going to notice the two polite gentlemen in the corner politely discussing the contrasts of magenta and turquoise, they're going to notice and remember the five hoodlums calling each others mothers the most vile names imaginable because someone dared to say that blue was superior to yellow.
That's kind of how I see The Flood. The majority of them are fine and dandy BNetters who I enjoy debating or discussing things with. But that 10% of misbehavers can easily ruin that image for the cool, calm, and collected majority. Hence I chose to reference that 10% because those are the ones that would, most likely, ruin the chances of an open-door policy to political discussion and be the ones throwing about the vitriol.