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I wish people could leave emotion at the e-door when coming on to forums... not just Hotcopper, I post on a forum for AFL and my tram Geelong in particular.

There it's the same as here - some balanced discussion acknowledging teams / companies do some good things, some bad things. Then the vocal 'positive minority' who view ANY criticism as trolling and yell 'go follow team Y then!'

Then you have the jaded 'pessimists' who are either there to just cause frustration and get a reaction (pure trolls) or those with regular intentions who have got so sick of being accused of being trolls for not towing the unerring positivity that they push back hard.

It becomes pure tribalism and it is horrible to watch for those in the middle. So many threads here are 40% moderated.

I don't post much, but there is some absolutely ludicrous 'dot joining' from people in no way competent or qualified to do so. That can be as embarrassing to read as the gutter level trolling. It's unfortunately an internet forum and this is the nature of them. Some posters bring no nuance, no shades of grey, no willingness to hear alternate views - It's I'm right and this will be a trillion $ world changer or it's a fraud that is going to be de-registered. The best companies in the world get a lot wrong, and the worst get stuff right.

There is some great discussion. But wow, this forum would have to be close to the most childish one on Hotcopper.

A lot of you - pro-BRN and anti-BRN need to seriously grow up.