Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
To be honest, I am surprised at the amount of trolling/insults here.

While a lot of that goes on at my own forum, it's a different atmosphere over there, and pretty much a place where you can post things that you can't get away with on other poker forums.

This place, while not initially set up as a gambling-related forum, has mostly evolved into a VP/Caesars discussion forum, and I think there's a lot of good information here. It's also not a young group (I'm 42, and definitely well below the average age here), so I don't see why this place has to devolve into what appears to be a bunch of children insulting one another.

I think if people can disagree respectfully rather than turning the forum into an excuse to personally bash people, it will be a much more useful and inviting environment. I'm sure there's plenty of lurkers here who are afraid to post, believing they will get ridiculed.
I don't post as much as before because of the antics. As a result, there's probably less than 10% of the posts that contain anything of actual value to me. I find that maybe another 10% are about the casino games I don't play (Which is fine. I'm wise enough to appreciate the skills and knowledge demonstrated by those contributors.) The remaining 80% is the silliness. As I said in another thread, it's all very much akin to toddlers in a sandbox throwing sand at each other: immaturity all around.