One of my favorite forums is currently undergoing a bitchfest in which a number of folks are carping about the list not meeting their needs...how they want to "unsubscribe" when all one needs do is go away and stop posting...how people aren't talking about things that interest them....etc., etc., whine, whine, whine.
If they would simply address the topics they would like to see discussed -- and then "discuss them" -- I think all the problems would go away.
But no...it's EVERYONE ELSE'S fault.
Funny story: When I was on USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) in the mid-1980s, I was the chief in charge of shipboard TV and radio. We had 5 TV channels and one of my tasks was to program them all. One channel was exclusively for training and one channel was exclusively for Armed Forces TV programs sent to us on a weekly basis (sufficient for programming one channel).
The other three channels were movie channels. We had a movie library courtesy of the Armed Forces TV network...and we had a ship's library...we would spend a lot our inport time renting movies and dubbing them and then playing them on our three channels.
One night, at sea, we had all five channels going. I had scheduled "Laura", and it was midway through the film. An aviator called and began berating me for showing a black-and-white movie...plus it was a movie that had no action in it. As I was diplomatically addressing his points -- telling him there were other channels to watch and that if he couldn't change the channel he might find another room where crewmembers were watching something he would like -- my boss was taking another call.
As I finished my call from the aviator, my boss listened intently to what was being said on his line. He then declared, "Because it's a fucking classic!" and calmly replaced the receiver onto the phone.
And that reminds me of internet forums....people either take the time to discuss differences of opinion...or people "flame".