Can't wait to see r/TC2 on here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communities
I stopped using Reddit a while ago, in large part because of the toxicity just below the surface of the platform. Sure, while many of the subreddits featured in the article are closed-off echo chambers that don't reach far beyond their scope, there are still people joining them and fitting in. Many people on Reddit, I find, have quite the ability to be nasty. What makes a person act nastily varies, with some peoples' triggers being more reasonable, but I think acting out in such a way is unbecoming and unconscionable to begin with. Perhaps this is just because of how I interact with the internet-- I'm not sure if I convey this well, but I don't get angry online. Online, you very rarely require anything from the other person. In other words, people are there to have fun. I use this viewpoint to measure my responses in a way that lets me express myself, while trying to avoid frustrating others. Others, which I found to be on Reddit, use this to state their opinions as willfully as possible, responding to disagreements as provocatively as possible. Of course, this is not common in every subreddit, and I tended to spend my time in ones where it was not, but the ideology itself is common enough on Reddit that it still occurs infrequently no matter where you might be.
Taking that into account, it's interesting to see how I migrated to this wiki's discussions. If I had to describe why I so much prefer this, it's the accountability. To be willful here is, in some ways, a death sentence. The example that comes to mind is a user known as HankSandy in his most provocative days. An inability to accept others opinions would be an aggressive post on Reddit, while here? It's on your permanent record. Here, it's sink or swim, adapt or die, kill or be killed. Perhaps that just means we become an echo chamber of sorts, but I like to imagine that we hold differing opinions, and what holds us together is our ability to accept that fact. And our familiarity with TC2, of course. I don't think it hurts that we have a project, the wiki, right behind us as well, though it might be hard to pinpoint exactly what that helps us with.
Regardless, I've enjoyed my time on the wiki. Here's to another three and a half years.