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Originally Posted by PortaPetee
Agreed. I was a daily participant here a couple years ago, but the constant toxicity, squabbling and personal attacks on other participants made me lose interest. The ugly right-wing propaganda doesn't help either. Complaints about the behaviours were ignored and deleted. So I left.
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I used to be more active here but mostly keep to the Canada section now. The personal attacks were a major part of that shift. Among other things, I was casually and baselessly accused of cheating my way through grad school, by someone else who doesn't post often anymore - though some others who are still regular posters have also been weirdly, directly antagonistic towards me, and I got pretty tired of that after a while. I'm not holding a grudge, but I have limited free time and prefer not to fill it with negativity.
I do want to thank OldDartmouthMark for standing up for me a number of times, but he really shouldn't have needed to. For what it's worth, things seem to have gotten a bit better over the last couple years (or maybe I just don't notice it since I don't check this site as often)
If people (on all sides) could resist being snarky I think the quality of discussion would improve a lot.
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