50 posts in and the gauntlet is thrown…
I’m afraid to ask what this means. I haven’t been back over there to see, and plan on deleting my account. I promised brad I’d wait to do it until he could figure out a way for me not to delete all my blog posts at the same time.
Lots of love coming your way, but then one more idiot right at the end.
That’s what the comments have been.
As I said, the compliments always come out to something like this rather than actually being said when it might actually matter.
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much praise and love, Dave. and that is what matters.
just forget about the idiots.
[edit] some new comments on BGG are of the holier-than-thou and arrogant kind too.
(“i’d be happy and willing to forgive if he returned.”)
(“but i feel like he crossed a line, so forgive is an appropriate feeling in this situation for me.”)
holy cow, what is this guy smoking?
exactly the stuff no one needs to read.
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I can only concur with kennfusion’s comments on the Star Realms leagues. Very fun and kind group.
I’m not familiar with the Star Realms league, but I can say that while BGG has its share of toxic people, I’ve overall found the site to be a very nice place to be.
That could be because I mainly stick to the forums for specific games rather than the general forums.
And yeah, the comment threads to posts (like the news posts which caused all of this) can sometimes get bad, my overall impression is a good one.
That being said, I haven’t been the target of the toxicity because I don’t post stuff for the site like Dave does. And I’ve seen the comments sections of some of Dave’s news posts, and sometimes it can get a bit tough to read.
I think the overall attitude isn’t as awful as most internet forums, but the sense of entitlement in particular is palpable. It’s particularly difficult to understand if you’re not American.
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I’m just going to leave this here.
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I feel like years of participation in RSP has thoroughly warped my expectations. My intuitions about standards for forum behavior are, shall we say, badly in need of calibration.
It’s a really odd aspect of the hobby. I see it on r/boardgames a lot too. It’s like knocking around with a load of cokeheads who are all constantly high as kites and resent you even suggesting laying off the naughty salt for even a day.
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I lol’d at this - definitely using this to describe cocaine the next opportunity I get
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That was funny - people dismissed Dan’s review of war chest because he said you had to control 7 hexes instead of 6. Wow what a big mistake! (Not)
At least he tried to warn ppl about this boring attritional “war game”
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I see that @Neumannium has returned to BGG’s Soon-To-Be-Formerly-Known-As-The-IOS-Board-Games-Blog 
Also, I think they should rename that blog “The what ever Neumannium and Brad feel like posting about, so suck it! blog”
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an overwhelming “welcome back” for Dave on BGG.
you have made many people happy, Dave 
what about “Digital Board Games” instead of “iOS Board Games” as new title for your blog?
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SEVEN PAGES of that bullshit (so far). It’s jaw-dropping.
That place is just a nightmare combination of the over-educated and under-sexed.
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I made it through all 7 pages (though admittedly started skimming a bit).
Do I get a prize?
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I scrolled down the first page thinking, “Well, this is inane but not overwhelmingly irritating…” and then I saw it went on for 6 more pages and thought, “Ohhhh–that’s absurd.”
The key things I do on that site at this point are participate in the math trades every month (scored 2 trades this month), enter the contests, and keep tabs in the TIME Stories news. Participating in the forums is an exercise in madness.
It just makes me grit my teeth when I see a thread like that. Two pages is enough. One of the best worst examples is this from when Dead of Winter first came out. 27 pages. Enough to drive someone to murder.