>I believe that we artificially act better than we are, Most of the time when I see unproductive conversations go back-and-forth here, it's often clear (or I'm

>I believe that we artificially act better than we are, Most of the time when I see unproductive conversations go back-and-forth here, it's often clear (or I'm quick to give the benefit of doubt) that at least one of them is a newbie trying to meaningfully contribute to a conversation where they don't know how much they don't know. But there's a sizable number of posts where I'm convinced the poster is a passive aggressive asshole that knows exactly the game they're playing. As long as they can hold a conversation with the surface level appearance of someone acting reasonable and polite, they get to be wildly disingenuous and/or cut people down nastier than the kind of comments that would be immediately moderated away.