Quote Originally Posted by Cobblemaniac View Post
I apologise if I came across as grouping your methods of arguments in the "hoho you're a shitbag" category bag, for the sake of fairness I've went past previous threads to make sure I wasn't making the wrong judgement for you, and indeed, you've tried your best to keep as civil as possible, I re-emphasise that I am terribly sorry. What I have observed is that you are noticeably losing your patience as the argument goes along (most notably in the general discussions thread), and that argument has probably tainted your impression of a few of our members here. Hell, my message probably already tainted your impression of me. I only ask of you this: please don't take it to heart, be it that general discussion issue, my message, or anything else, and let's try not to point fingers about anything, even if I am indeed hypocritically doing so right now.
Fair enough, lol. Also there's no need for you to apologize as I took no offense from it, was mainly just amused.

As for that discussion from the General Discussion thread, honestly for me, it was just a conversation between two people with differing viewpoints or dissenting opinions. It seems like others in the community may have used that discussion as the train they could use to jump on to personally attack parties that they might've had beefs with in the past. Though, I have no idea if that's the case as I don't frequent these forums enough to know. In fact, the only reason I engaged in the conversation in the first place was since the other party directly quoted and addressed me, which I just happened to see, and asked what seemed like pointed questions. So I responded, but it soon became clear to me that they weren't actually interested in having a detailed discussion about it at all since they quickly disengaged while saying things like "no one HAS to engage in a discussion" with others if they don't want to, which technically is true. Only it left me a bit confused as to why they engaged me in the first place at all if that was the case. Either way, I don't particularly care one way or the other, nor am I offended by it in the least.

And I have to parrot your statement in regards to unregistered users. There certainly are ones that are particularly helpful, but there are also those that seem to use this mask of anonymity to carry out what seems like personal grudges or attacks on others. Requiring posters to be registered would at least fix that latter part.