What is the most toxic forum you've been in?

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The politics section.
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The next is Twitter. I know Twitter isn't a "forum" but it's a toxic as fuck site that I prefer to spend as little time on as possible.
 
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Man, the names you guys are throwing out is what the MUGEN community back in the late 2000's/early 2010's would call "pussy shit". Their words, not mine. People arguing over sites warehousing content, releasing characters that troll people, and using language that would give Twitter SJWs the most fatal of heart attacks!

Nowadays, it looks like things have calmed down, mostly thanks to the fact that MUGEN isn't as popular as it used to be and is more of a meme nowadays. There's still new content being made today, but it was rough on the MUGEN Infantry forums back in the day!
 

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[gbatemp's politics section for most toxic]pretty sure everyone agrees here.

Nah. I am pretty sure I would die of boredom before I encountered anything that would see me drop my monocle. It is all very pedestrian really, and at best you get a few people that never quite managed to have a proper emotions detached debate before claim it is the worstest and a few that have not quite yet realised how useless politicians are and even if there somehow managed to be a good one then still nothing will happen because of the design of the system.
Though as ever citations/examples are requested. Times people claim it is the toxic I am never given examples of threads, users, behaviours or similar.


Anyway I think I have technically joined about 7 forums in my life (one was an iteration of a few so technically might be higher still even if it was the same domain, staff and topics of choice), 4 of which were to download something I needed and I never went back and only 2 are still active.
Have passively watched a few more. Prefer free form discussion but don't necessarily mind rules designed to laser focus things for actual technical stuff.
Those that pretend to be free form but are anything but ("free form as long as you follow our very specific world view"), those that handicap debate, and those where they are suffering under a clique tend to be the least pleasant places to want to add anything to.
 

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KiwiFarms. I've never made an account there, but just from looking through its pages, it's full of 20 - 30 year old sweaty men wanting to doxx each other over inhaling oxygen.
 

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Any forum where I do not have the power to destroy troublemakers! :gun:
Welcome back and nice to see that

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