Originally Posted by tore (Post 1189169)

I miss Erica actually. The first time I saw her username, I must admit I had her down as a sort of naive teenage wannabe-treehugger .. Like a vegan angel, showcasing her diet choice and how angelic she was or being a vegan made her. Even if I don't agree with her on all topics regarding diet and morality, I was surprised to find out she was a lot more mature than I initially thought and there was plenty of depth to her convictions.

I also thought her niceness was actually quite nice. We already have a lot of cynics so I found her positive do-good attitude different and somewhat refreshing. I hope she comes back and starts posting more again.

Originally Posted by tore (Post 1189169)

I miss Erica actually. The first time I saw her username, I must admit I had her down as a sort of naive teenage wannabe-treehugger .. Like a vegan angel, showcasing her diet choice and how angelic she was or being a vegan made her. Even if I don't agree with her on all topics regarding diet and morality, I was surprised to find out she was a lot more mature than I initially thought and there was plenty of depth to her convictions.

I also thought her niceness was actually quite nice. We already have a lot of cynics so I found her positive do-good attitude different and somewhat refreshing. I hope she comes back and starts posting more again.

Originally Posted by TheBig3 (Post 1189183)

Do we have cynics? I guess I'm in the wrong threads. I'd grant you that we have vicious people, but I don't think of them as necessarily pessimistic.

Originally Posted by Merriam Webster

2: a faultfinding captious critic; especially : one who believes that human conduct is motivated wholly by self-interest

Originally Posted by Merriam Webster

1: marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections <captious critics>

2: calculated to confuse, entrap, or entangle in argument

Originally Posted by tore (Post 1189204)

I'm thinking of cynic as something along the lines of this Merriam Webster definition :

Where captious is defined like this :

And so I think many if not most can be said to (often) behave like cynics on forums, me included. But never Erica from what I can remember.

Originally Posted by Metal Connoisseur (Post 1189028)

I just wanted to speak on the metal community here. Although I may not agree with all of them all the time, the core group of Unknown Soldier, Howard, Batlord, Hip Hop Bunny, Mondo Bungle, LOLPOCALYPSE, and Bastard of Young and the consistency they provide in their posting makes for a fraternal environment that I quite enjoy...that is unless one of them is female. Also, the occasional visits from Jackhammer, Janszoon, and Alfred also tend to spark up interesting conversation as well. Keep up the good work people!

Originally Posted by hip hop bunny hop (Post 1189217)

Question: would the metal community be better if it produced more drama? I feel like the best way to increase our visibility would be to have occasional drama spill-overs to other forums... that sort of creepy, post-by-post stalking and angrily replying that occurs in the other groups here really does seem to do a lot to bring about discussion.

Originally Posted by Bam You Have AIDS (Post 1189155)

Frankly, some of our "nicest" members are people I find the most irritating. :laughing:

Originally Posted by tore (Post 1188863)

I post on two large music forums and, although I don't consider MB to be very bad, it is definetly the more savage of the two!

Originally Posted by PoorOldPo (Post 1189360)

Well I guess I haven't really posted on that many forums before so I can't speak from experience, but some people do get abused here.