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There are certainly some people who are over the top in their posts - kinda like real life. As someone who took a ton of abuse early on, I can say that in general people need to have a thick skin, have the ability to laugh at themselves, and must learn to differentiate between people whose opinions you respect and those that serve more as comic relief. PPOT is actually a good training ground for interpersonal relationships in the real world. If you take everything at face value, and are unable to take some good-natured (and yes, sometimes cruel) ribbing in PPOT, you likely won't be able to take it in the "real world" as well. In the end this is a much safer place to learn those skills, and frankly, this community never fails to rise to the occasion when one of their own is in need. It is a family, and like all families, there is plenty of dysfunction. A lot of the really nasty comments are removed, but this group will have its own tendencies. I don't think you can expect a bunch of mostly DIY car guys to be talking about what vacuum is best.
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