It is.
Alright, then I'm going to be real honest with you.
You are a giant ball of hypocrisy right now. You claim that people don't post out of fear of negative retaliation from "older" members,
but then start off the conversation by acting condescending towards Vorpal. In addition, you also continue to
subtly insult him until you got to your
"point." You tell Devour not to put words in your mouth and
then claim that a good chunk of us are just antagonizing newer members from posting while offering zero evidence to back up your claim, and used this as a basis for a majority of your argument. In fact, you yourself say
that it's not even relevant. On multiple occasions, you blame Vorpal for continuing the conversation,
when you're literally provoking him with each post. To add insult to injury, you even say that an insult exchange is exactly what you're trying to avoid, when that's literally how you started the conversation earlier.
Look, I get that you (appear to) have good intentions, but you're going around them the wrong way. You apologize for your rudeness, and then follow it up by saying that Devour didn't read your conversation by nitpicking pedantically over his post when what he said was essentially correct. Just apologize like a normal person and stop acting like an asshat by continuing your long monologues about how antagonistic we are and claiming that we're not understanding what you're saying.