Why are people on message boards so NASTY?

1/ The moderation on most forums is shockingly bad and often biased. The mods will go after easy targets and tend to be in a clique with the worst trolls. Quite often anyway.

2/ Anonymity allows people to post crap and abuse people. I don't mind if you disagree with my opinion but there is no need to abuse me just because you disagree. Again, a good Mod and Admin should be addressing that kind of behaviour. Stop this kind of childish crap so people know that the best thing to do is report it rather than fire back with more abuse.

3/ Politics. I have to say it. This is a movie/TV forum yet most of the threads are political one way or another. This also sparks aggression and things get heated.

So yeah I relate 100%, I joined here to discuss film and TV, I did get involved in some political chats but it's not why I am here and it does kind of annoy me that politics is what this site is really about. Or maybe it is just the aggression involved in those threads. I don't know but the bottom line is that movies and TV is an escape for me, I don't need to be getting abused or seeing thread after thread about something political, even if I don't open the thread, I still see the title.

The site needs direction and the trolls need to be dealt with.

I agree 100% with you.