User blog comment:Hawki/The StarCraft fanbase, or, how I learnt to stop worrying and love StarCraft II/@comment-3106883-20150707102017

Hi Hawki. My experiences match yours. I have given up expecting anything but hatred from any video game or movie forum or comments section. I abandoned my favourite tabletop roleplaying game forum in the past year or so because I felt the moderators were no longer dealing with misogyny. My current main fiction entertainment interest has moved to boardgames. I have found what seems to be the main site for the hobby. I have tried to restrict myself to just the forums for the individual games, but every pre-2015 game has had at least one person viciously attack the players for not playing only his sort of games. There seems to have been a civil war on the site about this a few years ago that some people are still trying to win, winning constituting driving other people from the site, or at least from posting.

That's one of the things that gets me about this type of behaviour: these haters and self-declared controllers honestly believe (and explicitly said so on the Star Wars: the Old Republic forums) that emotionally abusing people through a forum allows you to control their lives and, through them, their company. It's insane. It's why I wish that the entertainment industries would follow the example of so many other sites and just shut their forums and comment sections down.