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Originally Posted by Since1984
There are different level of fans in Calgary for sure, not all fans are toxic and in many ways what one person feels is "toxic" is another persons "passionate" fan. In every aspect of life these are opinions, some conform to what they think should be the norm and others have a separate opinion on what a fan should be.
Calgary should be a place where teams fear coming to play, perhaps it isn't so much the team and there inability to get the fans in the game....perhaps! it is the fans inability to drag that damn team into a game where they should be caring.
I'm not surprised this board has been mostly negative and hard to deal with as most of us care enough about the team to waste our time on this site and argue with other hardcore Flames fans. If we want to turn this forum into an embodiment of the actual fans at a Flames game, go for it, but even in 20,000 boring library Flames fans there will be quite a few people that are the negative fans there. It just seems there is so much policing and people that feel their opinion is more pertinent than others when it truly isn't, it is all equal.
Let Whiny McNegative be the poster he/she wants to be and be whoever the hell you want to be on the forum also.
lets all just remember this quote from Fight Club:
"You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else."
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To the bolded: I think we can all agree that there is a difference between policing and asking for civility. Let's not invent arguments please. This is also not about someone's opinion being of higher value than others, but it IS about whether or not that opinion was presented in a way that is relatively acceptable to social norms, i.e. don't say it if you wouldn't say it in public/to someone's face.
Lastly, I don't think quoting a film that predicated itself on nihilism is a great way to build a community. That might be your personal perspective on how the internet should be, but I would like to think that we can be kinder and gentler to one another with just a small amount of effort. I think taxbuster is just reminding us to try a little harder.