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The Cardboard still has a large core of posters that post reasoned, usually knowledgeable posts, and it would be the board's loss to lose any of them.  But there are other posters who post what I will call aggressive posts.   I, for one, tend to back away when I see tensions rise as they have in the last year or so.   I don't come to the Cardboard to argue vehemently;  I came to celebrate great performances and suffer tough losses together.

Two sports seem to have a lot of aggressive posts.  I tend to avoid those threads.
There are also two posters whose posts too often raise my anger levels.  So, I've chosen to ignore them (User CP > Miscellaneous > Buddy/Ignore List) so I just skip their posts.   That isn't to say they don't have good things to say, just that what & how they say it rub me the wrong way. 

I expect the recent WBB performances have brought in new posters.  They and their viewpoints are welcome to me.    I hope they adopt a manner of discussing things without being overly contentious.  It may take some training and turning of the other cheek.

I'd like to commend the Cardboard community for a calm (surprisingly to me) discussion about the issue of transgender competitors.

My hat's off to BC for often stepping in, not as a moderator but as a poster, and posting a reasoned post when things got edgy.

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The Cardboard still has a large core of posters that post reasoned, usually knowledgeable posts, and it would be the board's loss to lose any of them.  But there are other posters who post what I will call aggressive posts.   I, for one, tend to back away when I see tensions rise as they have in the last year or so.   I don't come to the Cardboard to argue vehemently;  I came to celebrate great performances and suffer tough losses together.

Two sports seem to have a lot of aggressive posts.  I tend to avoid those threads.
There are also two posters whose posts too often raise my anger levels.  So, I've chosen to ignore them (User CP > Miscellaneous > Buddy/Ignore List) so I just skip their posts.   That isn't to say they don't have good things to say, just that what & how they say it rub me the wrong way. 

I expect the recent WBB performances have brought in new posters.  They and their viewpoints are welcome to me.    I hope they adopt a manner of discussing things without being overly contentious.  It may take some training and turning of the other cheek.

I'd like to commend the Cardboard community for a calm (surprisingly to me) discussion about the issue of transgender competitors.

My hat's off to BC for often stepping in, not as a moderator but as a poster, and posting a reasoned post when things got edgy.