Careful, any more "directness" in the "expressiveness" the real, paid mods might delete your post just for pointing it out.

But don't worry, I'm not going to "spill over" because of this... ;)

If that is true it would be because GoG didn't use much censorship then and there were a lot of trolls and SJ attack on gamers during the whole gamergate era.

Yes there is some toxicity in Gog forum but honestly I think it more an "Internet today" issue rather than a Gog issue. And with all it's flaws I think that Gog forum is not too bad for a Gaming oriented forum, Steam is usually much worse and let's not talk about the nightmarish cesspit that ResetEra is.

While things were better at the beginning, even thought I remember some pretty heated Steam vs Gog or DRM related threads even back in the days, you cannot expect a forum with Gog current user base to remain as "classy" as it was in 200X when it was just a bunch of dozen / hundreds older gamers discussing about old games. Sadly that's a common rule on the Internet, even long before the crazy extremist polarized period we are living in today, that the bigger your community is the more toxic it usually become.

But if anything I would say that things are better nowadays than they were a couple of years ago. The banning of most, not directly linked to gaming, political threads helped calming things down and moderation can be seen from time to time.

Of course it doesn't prevent some former to push the boundaries from time to time or some name calling but it not comparable to how it was not so long ago.

Note that I'm using the term "disgust" as a mild variant for toxic behavior. After all disgust is the provoked reaction towards toxicity.

There are always some shitheads online, I personally recommend just ignore those who you believe do behave in a disgusting manner but with the caveat that you must lead by example yourself. After all, there are very specific profound psychological reasons to find something abhorrent or disgusting.

However, people may have different degrees to what accounts as a disgusting action, so their reason may not align with yours. Its best to just let people have their opinions, so don't point fingers and behave yourself according on how you want others to behave. So in the end, if you inspire enough people there is a huge chance that people intrinsically attempt to understand your viewpoint, which means that implied toxic behavior may simply vanish over time. Because if you lead by example you may open peoples eyes towards the problem.

But if you just point fingers and say that "people are evil", then you're just making things worse for others but also for you, because you contribute to an atmosphere that is always fluctuating, which makes things even harder to pinpoint any problem, which leads to people having even less of a clue regarding the actual problem you may think the forum has.

Instead of making a thread, just engage with people in random conversations. Help people, be nice to people and enjoy the forum. You will see that in due time, those you may think of as toxic right now are actually not-so-bad folks after all.