If I have posted some things out of frustration with the bull#$#% on here, so be it. It seems like most of the other people bothered by this simply refrain from posting or else leave the board entirely. I have had several people contact me via private message with words of support and agreement. For whatever reason I guess they are just not comfortable sharing their thoughts openly here. But there is definitely a problem here. You guys trying to blame the victims or pretending that these issues do not exist is not going to solve anything.
I'm curious why would you characterize the recommendation for introspection and self-assessment as victim blaming, or as willful blindness to the problem.
I think the main problem, as Bonsixx alluded to, is that people simply have different ideas of what a discussion forum means to them. Some want to analyze and dissect ideas; others just want to say what they feel and be affirmed. That spectrum exists in every community.
In the same community, inevitably someone from side A is going to post a treatise on shot location data being binned for misleading assessments of the state of a team's structure and side B will tune out.
At the same time, someone from side B is going to post about how he or she feels a certain thing turned out on the ice ("Seth Griffith will score 10 goals this season!") and maybe throw in a suggestion for how to fix it (or destroy it), someone else from side B will feel different and say so ("LOL Buffalo"), and someone from side A will analyze and dissect that suggestion and assess it accordingly ("He played top minutes with Florida and basically did nothing with that opportunity"). Sometimes the first poster will think, "ah, this is not what I was looking for", and check out. Other times that poster might take personal offense to having information counter to their beliefs thrown at them and try to attack back, usually personally because it was a personal offense to begin with so why not.
At the end of the day, we each can only control our own actions and reactions. If you want this place to be a better community, then be a better community member.