"We are the underdogs, doing the real work, and yet unappreciated by many people."
This is the number one reason why people's tone gets sharper and sharper in online "communities", and often they are 100% right.
Most online "communities" devolve into cliques, where the powerful gang up on dissenters. Often the dissenters indeed do a lot of real work behind the scenes, while 80% of the powerful are well spoken parasites.
The powerful then resort to censorship, which escalates the situation.
In this case, who cares about resolving issues "productively" if people's lives are at stake?
"We are the underdogs, doing the real work, and yet unappreciated by many people."
This is the number one reason why people's tone gets sharper and sharper in online "communities", and often they are 100% right.
Most online "communities" devolve into cliques, where the powerful gang up on dissenters. Often the dissenters indeed do a lot of real work behind the scenes, while 80% of the powerful are well spoken parasites.
The powerful then resort to censorship, which escalates the situation.
In this case, who cares about resolving issues "productively" if people's lives are at stake?