Ah, yes, our very own raving lunatic. Please just take these pills like every other evening and you'll soon get back to your very own paradise, devoid of life, with undead minions and whatever else your imagination seems to come up with.

I think that, other than from the repetition involved in game play on WoW the forums are one of the worse aspects of it. I have seen at least a few posters saying "did he/she drop good loot?" after someone put some kind of monologue about how the person who played that account (or a related account) died IRL. I guess the good question is some forums it seems the tweenie boppers wonder how low they can go :P
But yeah... the forum here is a looot more mature due to most of the immature brats being more into the high end graphic games where they can grief other human players since you can't grief CPU players... or at least thats how it seems sometimes...

Think what you will you fool of a human. One day the dead will rule this world and i will be there leader.Then you know the meaning of true fear and pain!
Your in luck this time for i have many other things that need to be done today. i will leave a gift be hide to keep you busy for a while. Minions kill the offerings.
minion9943593:Yes master.
[uruk starts to wave his hands and chant words]
There its done.
[a magic red gate opens. in to it you can see a wasteland of fire and hear the sound of screams coming form with in the gate]
Me:All right minions its time to get out of here.
[demons start to poor out of the gate]
Have fun dealing with the demons.may you enjoy a nice painful death.

I guess we need to start wearing a hug me jacket now. =)

More like a big red target.To make it easy to hit you with a fireball.

First, who is gamesbrief.com ?!
Second, Well I do agree with some points, but he is really harsh in others.
I guess that the more niche the subject of the forum is, the more auto-moderated and with greater civility (by its users) this forum will be. The more populated (e.g. WoW) the more crap will be available as data, so guys like this can make bad analysis and generalize everything.
I hate social networks (the ones in the style of facebook) being used as official communication tools. I'm cool with twitter because it's fast and clear.
I like the idea of blogs for official announcements and as a main, index channel, but don't agree with comments in it 'cause they tend to get nasty and derailed. (I just tried today to search through the gog news, and it has been complicated...). Although it's cool to see the gog news as a post in the forums, to see these general announcements tied to the community.
I agree that forums are unstructured and hard to find the best threads, it's complicated to follow 5 forums, for example.
This.
Not much flaming... but sometimes the newbies get, uh... until they give up and edit their topic (or when they try to start a discussion about a game he/she loved and they are given 15 links to the wishlist instead of a conversation):
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/original_installation_folders_for_gog_games

That completely depends on how they phrase the OP. Usually, it's just begging, in which case they get the wishlist link. However, in the few rare cases where they're actually trying to start a discussion, that's usually what they get, in my experience.

Best system is the 4chan system, complete anonymity because forum veterans (100+ posts/rep) tend to have greater authority so forced anon gives their opinions the same amount of judgement as someone new.

And that's what makes 4chan the last bastion of truly classy and civilised online community.

They sure are the most polite, helpful, and nicest community I've ever been to in years.

Usually begging, yes, it's what I've been seeing.
Sorry I wrote it in a way that it sounded as happening regularly here, but it's not the case, of the OP getting ignored for a conversation.
My focus was more in the first example, not this second. The first with the link, which the guy was laughed upon and didn't even read the whys of being replied like that, then he came back and deleted the post. More than a negative impression of the community, it can evolve to a negative impression of the company too.

Forums is a waste of time.
To me, it seems people have this predetermined answer they repeat for eternity.

Forums are so old-fashioned. Newsgroups are the future. Someone should make comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.old.

I kinda miss those. There aren't any decent news servers left though, are there? All the open-access ones seem to be have about one remotely funny/useful post for every thousand spam messages.