But I will say one other thing before dipping out of this echo chamber talk completely. One can describe these forums as a very negative echo chamber, but few ever think of the harmful effects that an echo chamber fueled by positivity can have. The latter by nature is FAR harder to call out without people assigning an asshole tag to your name, and will oft drown out anything remotely critical regardless of the context. It is counterproductive to desire something like the latter if you are looking for actual feedback.
Well, it's not particularly surprising when you think about it.
It would probably hard to identify a single case in the entire history of mankind where surrounding themselves with sycophants unwilling to offer anything but praises EVER helped anyone to better themselves. To any degree.
