What the Backroom is good for, and what it is not

[Beskar]

Do you believe society should help the vulnerable?

I take the slightly different twist. Society should be valued/measured on how the most vulnerable are treated.
but that is digressing on the subject...

Personally, I feel the way I approached the backroom has changed over the years and even recently. There is one time I just used to dump random brainfarts in here and watch PFH go "Wait what.. you want to stick the Capital on the Isle of Mann?!". There were times I approached the Backroom in an angry manner, just unleashing frustration as a place to ventilate. There used to be some of the more old ball characters on here which you would never ever meet the like of again, like the guy who thought EU should become a neo-monarchical Holy Roman Empire, the classic cases of the arch-right wing homophobe taking a break and then returning to discuss relationship troubles with their same-sex partner. You had the fundamentalists, the satirists, the legal beagles, and an actual aristocrat of a noble family. All sorts have walked into these halls.

There is also the change in culture and in the way the internet was used. Now-a-days, Polarisation is all around us and you only have to say "Marmite" to instantly divide everyone into two camps. Trump and Brexit are recent ones and the impacts it has on civility is evidenced in each of our posts. Similar cultural trends have flowed through these discussion halls, posts are reflections and products of their times.

What is interesting is actually how civil people are on here. I see other places and the amount of moderation required to get as half as civil as in here is mindboggling, a second job for sure. Though to be fair, we are regulars who know eachother and the wildcards have either left or removed long ago.