OK, fair enough. But they seem to enjoy it.
Would you post in a Neo Nazi forum and want to be around those people, albeit virtually? I know I wouldn't.
I chose to stay away from Retard era for the same reason. Anyone who has a remotely original brain there gets banned.
I mean of course people enjoy it.
If you ignore the crazies, there are
alot of really good posters and discussions there. People who don't even bother posting in the political / outrage threads and just enjoy the gaming discussion.
And considering the Neo Nazi thing:
look, this is just my personal opinion.....but the kind of toxicity in ResetEra is a slowburn kind of toxic that spreads into niche communities....But more than anything, their obsessions and crazy viewpoints are more self-destructive than anything else. These are people who are in combat with "injustices" they can find in
literally everything around them. The amount of posts that boil down to "I'm depressed/sad/discouraged by the state of the world" posts are pretty staggering.
These are the kinds of people who'll say White People are the ultimate enemy, men are the devil, ect ect...but also deplore gun violence, wouldn't dream of physically harming any woman, and dream of a utopia where everywhere is a safe space. They aren't going to shoot up a church or plow down the driveway of a Right-Wing rally because such an action doesn't align with their high-horse, self-righteous, morally superior mindset, no matter how deep into it they go.
ResetEra insanity is the kind of thing that results in social annoyances, like the "SJW/Woke pandering" that people on GAF commonly complain about.
Neo Nazis are a COMPLETELY different flavor of crazy......the most brainwashed/extreme will go to carry out their ideals in a blaze of glory, to the praise of their communities. Not the same kind of threat IMO.
TL;DR I don't put them on the same tier as Neo Nazis, even if, functionally, they are just about equally insane.
Same insanity algorithm, different input.
I think it's fair to say that long term, everyone there will think the same. It's inevitable, because people who don't think the same are banned.
This is, unfortunately, true.
Even if the centrists stay silent as the community grows with time, the crazies will just increase in density.
Anyone in the grey who gets fed up will speak up and promptly be banned.
At which point they either fall in line, or keep going until the Perma hits.