I also think people confuse negativity with disagreement. For example, I spent the entire existence of GDA explaining why ECNL was a better platform and how GDA would eventually fail, only to get mocked incessantly for it. That wasn’t negativity, it was the truth. I spent years defending the WNT explaining how they had never been “passed by” and will not get passed by any time soon, only to get repeatedly mocked for that too. I got mocked for pointing out that holding a GDA showcase in CO in April is a bad idea, only to get mocked for that right up until everyone got there and it got snowed out. I once made a completely innocuous post about ACL injury avoidance, only to get incessantly mocked for that advice right up until the a**hole’s daughter tore her ACL. Even then he and others continued to come after me for whatever reason. I have constantly defended kids being able to have the option of playing HS without getting kicked out of their club or league, and got mocked even for that. I explained why no one would ever learn about the full extent of Amanda Cromwell’s (probable lack of) role in the Singer scandal. I explained why McGuire won’t get fired over highly hyperbolic, and often exaggerated or misleading allegations leveled against him.
The problem here ain’t me. The problem is virtually everyone here is just dumb, doesn’t want to hear what they don’t want to hear, and have no respect for different opinions. I played nice for a while, but that doesn’t work with the magat crowd that congregates here, so let’s do it their way. If you’re going to say something bigoted, disrespectful, or mind-bogglingly stupid, I’m perfectly happy to ratchet up the lack of respect a couple notches to prove my point or lay waste to a thread in which people can’t get it together.