Hello!
I understand the need for a succinct thread title, but I think you need my full sentence (which you did quote, thank you) in order to say what I wanted to say.
I have mostly posted here over the past 15 years in ways that wouldn’t attract the meat axe wielders. I.e., I post about just stuff that doesn’t draw strong opinions. Where I have done otherwise, I’ve paid the hostility and invalidation tax that the SDMB charges.
That’s really it. In my MPSIMS thread, I got plenty of good responses (which one can expect here as well), but also the standard kind of troublemakers that inhabit the Dope. Was it worth it? Perhaps, barely, in this case. And my thread wasn’t even very controversial in nature, IMO.
Now, people are going to come into the Pit now and tell me I’m wrong and an idiot. But that just makes my point for me. People who are aggressive and hostile think their behavior is totally fine. They enjoy taking other people down and out. I don’t. And people who don’t, in general, are not going to feel comfortable on this board.