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Originally Posted by Koko Ed

People are scared to death of posting on CD because they'll get torn apart for making unpopular opinions. I've heard this quite alot in the past few years.

There certainly could be a "greatest hits" collection of someone making an unpopular opinion and 20-30 different people make the same criticism with occasional sprinklings of other users telling the well-established "CD Hivemind" to cool it until the user is 5 rep-dots in the hole, half of the posts are deleted, and they are never to be seen again. If you want a refresher of what I'm talking about, searching ' "Greater Toronto" and "2013" or "2012" ' by titles only and going through the top 4 threads will yield instances where a poster may have posted something troll-ish or false, and the community tended to not leave it alone, but let everyone take their pound of flesh.

I should know, I did that more a while ago in an effort to be accepted by people on here...

In my personal opinion (not attached to any team or anything here) Chief Delphi's functions and attitudes since Chief Delphi the team merged has been stuck in a rut not unlike the "Eternal September". Essentially, events where a few key members from older days began making fewer posts here and an influx of new members happened at the same time. Some of the new members, it seems, formed into some weird collective of group-thought. While often shares widely-held beliefs of the community at large, can execute methods some would deem uncouth at its best and detrimental to community progress at its worst.

I am unsure if this thread is the proper place or if now is the proper time to have this discussion, but it's one that is probably warranted.

Try not to bust out the negative rep unless you honestly believe someone is not beginning or continuing in the vein of constructive discussion in the thread, or if they are obviously "trolling". Deal with attacks through reports for mods to take care of and handle disagreements through neutral rep or full-fledged PMs.