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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
Well sorry Zelda, but that just is not true - try being a relative newcomer to these forums and posting replies in a thread in the Lounge where several long-term members are interacting. True, you won't get any hostility, but it is almost certain that you will be totally and utterly ignored.
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It's possible to be a complete newcomer and be instantly in the favor of the MR clique. There is probably a typical forum "personality" type that is better suited than others to the MR forum, although what that online personality is is a mystery to me. This is probably true for all forums, and is probably already the subject of many online psychology/sociology studies. In any case, it's quite intriguing that "biases" occur even in online forums where we don't even see each other, and really don't even get to know each other at a very deep level.