Thread: Hello from MA

What are the people on these forums generally like? Are people decent and civilized or are these forums full of trolls and grammar nazis?

Originally Posted by randy.purdy

What are the people on these forums generally like? Are people decent and civilized or are these forums full of trolls and grammar nazis?

Crazy. Yes. Howdy and welcome to the zoo. ;-)

Originally Posted by randy.purdy

What are the people on these forums generally like? Are people decent and civilized or are these forums full of trolls and grammar nazis?

Yes and yes
There are some good people open to discussion and some fanatatics and some trolls. pretty much everything under the sun

Awesome, thanks for replying! I hope i can find an outlet for some great conversation here.

It varies. Many days you can get in a good conversation or debate with an intelligent and civil person of opposing view.

Other days, the partisan hacks are all running in circles screaming like Chicken Little.


It's been a bit of a zoo lately due to all the controversial issues coming to a head before the Prez election, but it will settle down a good bit after November.

Welcome to DP!

There is definitely your usual spread of loons and hacks, but there are some real debaters, too. A tip I picked up is that if you show the hacks you are interested in honest debate and willing to change your mind when appropriate, even many of them are capale of true debate.

There are blessedly few grammar freaks. I even try to control my impulses, which can be very hard when a good point is ruined by mispelling basic words and using sentence fractures.

Where in MA are you from? My parents grew up there and I went to school in Boston.