I'm a lot less polar on here than Reddit. On Reddit, it seems like if you liked or disliked something, you had to be 100% for or against it in a lot of cases. You had to make sure you had a watertight argument, where nobody could refute anything that you said. This is fine for an actual argument, but not that great for a website. Here, I'm not really trying to argue, I'm trying to discuss. I can beat around in the middle without reaching either extreme in a topic. Everything on here is more of a casual conversation, while on Reddit, there were a lot of people looking for that "Gotcha!" moment. They would look for the tiniest fallacy or misinformation and try to beat you down with it. It's not that they were really assholes or anything, it's just that everyone against your opinion was seen as hostile. If you got something wrong, you got mocked or condescended upon. Here, people might point it out, but it's no less violent than normal discourse.