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Re: Forums not used as much anymore

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Originally Posted by Ian Curtis View Post
I would agree with what others have pointed out, most of the posts on CD consist of hive mind or hero worship, neither of which are productive. On an individual level, I would think the most productive thing is to simply not post in threads you don't find productive.

CD's reputation for being a potentially hostile place is not new, I was aware of it when I signed up over 8 years ago.
Often, newer members (such as myself) feel compelled to add their own opinion to the topic, even when they aren't adding much of substance. Since their opinions are usually formed by reading CD, they aren't all that different from everyone else on these forums. This type of feedback loop is what generates those 200 post long bashing the n00b/praising the elite team threads, full of regurgitations of the same hive mind consensus. Not to delve too deeply into hero worshiping, but I'd like to remind the community that some of the most respected posters don't post very frequently.

I think this community has far too strong of a knee jerk reaction. I hate to bring up the whole mentor built thing... But it's kind of illustrative. There's always that one thread every year (or three months) where some new poster says that they dislike the fact that some mentors have very active roles in building the robot. The rest of the thread (all 10 pages) is flaming of the OP and worshiping of the team that the OP mentioned in their first post. If we really all agree...why do we need to spend so much time saying so?

After seeing how much time the community spends on this type of thread, should we really be surprised that this is what CD is increasingly all about? Do we think that it's really necessary to create and enforce some hostile and rather superficial hive conscience, at the cost of having a forum for used for real technical discussion? Perhaps I'm being either inflammatory or cynical, but I really dislike the fact that most CD discussions are so formulaic and devoid of real discussion.

I didn't join to have people call me out on my opinions, or to annoy other people with them for that matter. I joined so that I could become respected in the community after adding to technical discussions and answering technical questions. However, I seem to spend a lot of my time putting out fires created after I disagree with what the CD community wants to believe.

Sorry for rambling, just one of my "I felt like I needed to say it" posts.
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