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There are not, or more specifically they are in such a narrow band they could fit on a postage stamp.

You can tell simply from the level of engagement. I was here for the original beta, which I still have along with the first several subscriptions and books. There used to be constant posts all day. Now you see posts frequently days or months apart and mostly from the same core group of "acceptable" people.

This would be apparent to anybody who spent more than 10 minutes looking through the forums both then and now.

I, for example, am self evidently not welcome here. I would not post my actual opinions on just about anything here, gaming or otherwise. Even just pointing out the problems with this forum would start the clock ticking to my inevitable removal. It would be a few days of posting before I would no longer be tolerated or deemed to be some undesirable descriptor for merely pointing out the blatantly obvious.

My guess is I'm probably one or two posts away as being labeled "disagreeable", as you have pointed out If I don't pretty quickly quiet myself.

I don't think this is possible. These forums are not a place for dialogue in the slightest anymore, only agreeance and adoration is actually allowed.

There is no allowance for viewpoint diversity here, which is why I (and many many others) generally stopped posting and pretty much stopped buying products here a long time ago. As far as I can tell this place is still heading in a purity spiral direction with no mechanism in place to slow it.

This is so bad here that the simple act of pointing out the lack of viewpoint diversity is likely to get me banned or my post deleted. If somebody asked me to elaborate, the elaboration will likely get me or my post removed.