The LARGE majority of people I saw posting from GD before I even made this thread were flat out rude and trolling. it's just a fact. I mean the most upvoted thread right now in GD is what I assume started as a light-hearted "ban x person" thread, and a large majority of the responses quickly turned to insults, mocking other boards and people directly, making accusations of said person, downvoting things that didn't make sense to downvote, etc. These weren't people I see posting daily on the boards making these comment, so it wasn't just random people, it was GD people.
It feels like you guys are sticking together and taking a high road, and that's fine, but there seems to be a large blinder or filter people are ignoring about the negativity coming from GD, and as if I'm supposed to be welcoming this negativity I saw before I posted a thing post or thread, with open arms. I've seen 2 people respond to me with anything half-decent, that quickly turned to insulting me calling me a "child" and calling to ban me from the boards, with one flat out talking and doing exactly what they claimed I was doing, and you are the only one who hasn't insulted me flat out yet. Literally the only one.
So my negativity bias is coming from what I've seen so far, and when you are one person out of every response I've gotten that isn't trying to troll me, VERY rudely insult me, or be flat out hypocritical, it's hard to see the one good person among the ones flipping me the bird.
If everyone there is above what I'm saying, then why is no one else responding with anything like you are, trying to have a discussion, instead of far more rude and negative things than I've even started to say? Most of what I've seen is flat out proving me right, so it isn't a "preconceived notion", because I didn't have one. I just saw a whole bunch of GD posts, was confused, and started having a look. Top thread "ban x from GD", first few pages were just rudeness and silliness. Next thread I see "Welcome front page to GD!" see people talking about trolling the front page and upvoting troll threads. See threads there just to clutter the front page with troll threads. See one guy who made a thread asking people to essentially keep in mind everyone can see the stuff, not just GD, and people just went on about not caring about everyone else non-GD, more comments about blatantly trolling front page, and so on. THAT is what formed my opinion, and THAT was when I made this thread, not before. You notice this was made hours after, not the minute it happened.
the old saying goes, you can only make one first impression, and my first impressions of this "new" GD is, negativity, trolling, and posts about apples and waifus. Sure there are other trolls on these boards, but guess what, we call them out on it too. Why should GD be any different?
Considering it is the first day of a merger and first day of GD having front page access, I expect that it will dwindle a bit and you will see less "clutter" as time passes. Currently GD is excited by the prospect and filling up our new Board (since the merge) and as such activity is high and upboats are plentiful.
