Signa said:
OK, so heres the deal, Im going to be intentionally be the meanest Ive been to you. Everything up to this point was incidental.
Y'know what, maybe this place isn't for me.
I wouldn't even necessarily mind being on a forum without the rules I was suggesting. That could be fine depending on the level of discourse. But if this is the ongoing tone, I'm not really going to have a nice time (which, I suspect, is rather the point).
I do think that the regulations on The Escapist were onerous and poorly thought-out, and I also think a good few people are probably going to be a good deal happier here. I hope they are, because a suitable online hangout isn't always an easy thing to come by. I suspect, though, that it won't be attracting a great diversity of people if the default response is this kind of personal hostility.