Why can’t we all just get along

So i’ve been reading, and reading and reading and hearing about this false dichtomy - that either we need to all get along and be friends in order to attract the average gamer or we shoudl just give up on ever being mainstream and trolling each other is simply just one thing we have to deal with?

Why can’t it be both ways; for example i try to tell people to watch CS streams(what littler there are) and pay attention to games that aren’t sequels to the best RTS ever made - and i don’t know if i’ve gone anywhere on either front - but at the same time i troll the shit out of slasher, fishstix, vvv and the “big” names in eSports - some times i don’t know if they realize when I'm being purposely ridiculous.

And while i agree with both, keekerdc’s point that the “kindness” of the community has never been related to the size of the viewership(going along Nixon's silent majority idea that most people who watch don’t say anything) and vVv/toptiergaming’s idea that we need to slow our rolls on the newbies a few questions kept creeping into my skull: why can’t we be talking about the finer points of strategy in CS and how WSVG/CGS/etc or SK-gaming/coL/etc aren’t sustainable as well as teaching an intro course on how gaming organizations, tournaments, lan centers etc work? Why can’t we coddle the young and be cynics at the same time?

To tell you the truth part of my ability to toughen up and talk mad shit on people who have done much more for the growth of eSports than i ever will in my short lifespan has come from this ability to filter out the stupid shit 90% of the community spews. Survival of the fittest if you will, those who want to see this thing grow and realize that most of the people out there are trolls who just talk shit.

Basically all this boils down to is something I learned a long time ago when gotfrag was still alive(thank you MLG for that, i love you for it) is that you have to be able to filter comments/posts on a forum. Start looking at the length of posts - if it’s a line long it’s useless 2 - 3 you might have some content, more than that and it’s definitely worth the read. You might end up getting trolled from time to time but it will definately increase the likely hood of legit stuff you read.