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Originally Posted by Barnet Flame
I don’t think so, but you can alway point to past individual exchanges to support your position. Slava’s position is much harder to demonstrate, but it rings true to me.
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Looks like the forum only archived the Fire On Ice subforum and doesn't have anything from 2013 to Today. Gonna be hard to post receipts but consider a few examples:
- The way Scorp was treated when he first joined was a pretty notable example at the time of how new members were scared away from this forum.
- The witch hunts of banned members that returned got completely out of control for a while and people derailed many, many threads. There was tons of sniping at people when there was disagreements and usually it devolved into "are you <person> back again?" This sometime overlapped with the "boys will be boys" attitude in posting styles back then but I don't blame that as much.
- The federal politics thread during the Harper era didn't look too different than how it does today. Lots of rage posting and back and forth attacks between the sides.
Perhaps what some are remembering is when they were part of the "in-group" at the time and weren't getting questioned on what was said as much? Things change and maybe they're on the other side of that coin now.