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Spacebattles.com tolerates abuses that won't be tolerated in better run forums. Namely verbal garbage, moderator approved BTW.

Beyond that, people do not view entertainment as sonething to be enjoyed and set aside. They view it as something to be put on a pedestal and obsessed over. They worship fiction about as hard as fanatical sports fans.

So unless you like expletives on every other post within 3 (within a post BTW) and you also put fiction on a pedestal and obsess over it, then spacebattles is not for you.

It is not even about spacebattles. It is more about fanatical love of fiction than anything else.

The most popular fiction on SB is the occult themed warhammer 40k as well as a bunch of anime and SW, and ST to a lesser extent. Posters tend to know way too much about fictional universes.

This site is kind of like of like Stardestroyer.net's stoner little brother, who somehow wound up being more successful in the long run. It gets a lot of the former site's "hand-me-downs" in terms of banned (or simply bored and fed up) members, and tends to have a generally more relaxed and less imperiously "mature" atmosphere all the way around. Legitimate Sci-Fi discussion does also thrive here, where it tends to be less relevant on the other board.

While Spacebattles.com is somewhat more diverse than SD.net in terms of membership, it is still highly lopsided in terms of ideological (Left Wing) and religious (atheist) leans. This does often tend to show in the form of member "dogpiles" directed against opposing viewpoints, or highly biased moderation. It is also, at the end of the day, a "nerd" forum, so one should also expect a certain lack of social skills, as well as a heavily skewed gender ratio, to abound throughout the community.

Bottom line: If you like having silly discussions concerning whether or not the Terminator could beat up Robocop, this forum is for you. For much of anything else, I'd pass.