Originally posted by Tarmac
Without the community, AH is just another game. O club = community.
The O'Club had ceased to be a "community" a long time ago. I long since stopped reading or posting in it because I didn't need the dogpile of venom directed at me that I was getting.
If people could have manged to be reasonable it would have been one thing, but too many choose to be frothing barbarians when the cloak of anonymity granted by the internet descends over them.
I enjoyed the O'Club when I first came here, but things turned a bit sour for me after Nov., 2000 and then tanked rapidly after Sept. 11, 2001. The stress of those events seemed, to me, to be taken as permission to take the gloves off of civility.
What I am saying is harsh, but it is what I saw. A bunch of grown men who wanted to act like hormone driven teenages in the locker room. To me it cast a shadow on the game due to what the "community" resource had become.