Why do you not post on the other forum?

[sanantone]

DI always has peaks and valleys when it comes to how much educational content is posted about. In the lull, the off-topic posts tend to move to the top of the pile by default. You might have noticed that the vast majority of the politics-related threads are started by the same 2 people and that the heated discussions are usually by the same half-dozen or so. It's not like the site has morphed in front of our eyes, it's that with the current slowdown of activity, the few people who like to post in off-topic are shown more prevalently.

When it comes to the forum culture, I'll quote myself from a post I just made today on DI:

"DegreeInfo has a very rich history of its members challenging each other, expecting each other prove their point, having major disagreements and allowance for open debate. I think this is a good thing, but it's clearly not everyone's cup of tea and, of course, has at times gotten out of hand. That's the nature of dialectic."

Although I'm a member of both forums, I've always felt more welcome THERE than HERE. It could just be a difference in personality. I like being challenged, and called out when necessary, and I prefer to be able to do the same in return. I haven't reread some of the old posts that once got me banned from THIS site   but I'd take a guess that that's also why I didn't fit in much here. 

Still, I owe a lot of people here a debt of gratitude for the guidance I was given and will never forget how encouraging you all were to me every time I came here to take a victory lap after an exam pass or degree completion. Depending on what decisions I make within the next year or so, there might be more of those to come.

There are debates here all the time, but this forum mostly deals with fact-based content. Either a school accepts an exam or it doesn't. Either this course costs $500 or it doesn't. There's nothing to challenge on that. This is not a state of higher education forum, even though there are occasionally threads on that. This is primarily a degree completion forum. Everything doesn't have to be turned into an off-topic argument. That's the difference in culture.

It's very difficult to get banned here. The moderators have banned spammers, stalkers, extremely mentally ill people, and people posting sexual and racist imagery. What did you do?