[darkenedsun9]

I've been playing Requiem Bloodymare lately to pass the time, and check in on the main site's forum once in a while to look for FAQs, see what changes have been made, kill time, etc.....and let me tell you, five minutes in there and all the flame wars, general stupidity, trolls, and downright faction wars between paying and non-paying players make me want to bash my head against a wall. Sadly, most other gaming forums are like that too.
Then, I come here and it's like a breath of fresh air. People are mature, intelligent, respectful, usually very helpful and sometimes pretty funny. In general the admins do a great job, and even if not always...hey we're all human. Yes new users postings the same threads over and over again can get annoying, but at least here they aren't flamed into oblivion for daring to ask a question. I guess I'd rather not have too many arguments here, because it's just so easy for a forum to devolve into nothing but flame war after flame war.
I bet it's an insanely delicate balance to manage to keep things open and loose enough to have good arguments and conversation, but not be so loose as to let things go downhill into flaming and trolling. I think AionSource has so far maintained that balance very well.