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[RedWarrior0]

GRRRR MINECRAFT FORUMS GRRRRR

This a million times for categorical and absolute truth and fact.

If a baseline for evil is a hypothetical child between Sauron and Cruella deVille, then Minecraft forums are the equivalent magnitude baseline for forum retardedness.

[Earthquake Damage]

If a baseline for evil is a hypothetical child between Sauron and Cruella deVille Hitler, then Minecraft forums are the equivalent magnitude baseline for forum retardedness.

Fixed, or at least rendered somewhat more accurate.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Yeah, Godwin's Law is easier to apply than OotS baselines.

[RedWarrior0]

The funny thing is that the unit of evil in OotS is kilonazis.

[ChairmanPoo]

politicsforum.org and its brother site.

[Sowelu]

Worse than dedicated politics sites:  The per-article threads on msnbc's and cnn's politics articles.

[Sensei]

Battleships Forever forums. ITT: Admins with serious issues.

[Jackrabbit]

Battleships Forever forums. ITT: Admins with serious issues.

I do believe that's where the "I'm a fucking faggot" Shad0wdump idiocy went down.

[PrimusRibbus]

Minecraft's forums, as noted by numerous previous posters, deserve a special shoutout... When I first discovered Minecraft, I made this strange assumption that the community would be awesome. Needless to say, the forums and the comments on Notch's blog destroyed my fantasy. MC's forum isn't the worst forum I've ever been a part of, but it absolutely takes the top spot as the most disappointing forum I've ever seen. Mount&Blade's forum was disappointing in a similar manner.

Can we count the comment trees of social news aggregators like Digg and Reddit as forums? If so, I nominate them as #1. Reddit is the only place where I've seen hundreds of completely unqualified individuals spew legal and medical advice at someone and insist that their word is damn near infallible. Think Yahoo! Answers if the people replying used decent spelling and pretended to be authorities on the subject. Related to that, while the phenomena of high-school/college students pretending to be something they aren't on the internet isn't new or unique, it's astounding what lengths Redditors will go to to pretend they're a mid-30's married-with-children PhD-holding expert in their field in order to throw out something legit-sounding for upvotes; a day after talking about their upcoming 21st birthday or what colleges they're applying to in a different thread.
I'm of the firm opinion that a focus on upvotes and "karma" (as it's called on Reddit) brings out the worst in a community.

[Lord Shonus]

By far the worst I've ever seen were Cracked.com's comments and the RPGmaker forum I used to frequent. Cracked commenters are really, really assholish if anyone dares to criticize or correct an article, especially if the criticism involves something nerdy. For example (I won't link to the article.)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Article about movie "wise men" who were full of shit: "...Gandalf talks a lot about how it's good that Bilbo didn't kill Gollum. Bilbo really should have killed Gollum and saved everyone a lot of trouble..." 

Commenter: "It's a lot clearer in the book, but even in the movie it's obvious that evil would have won if he'd done that, because Frodo couldn't destroy the Ring."
Reply: "LOL nerdrage!"
Reply: "Get a life so you can get laid, loser."
Reply: "It's a comedy site so don't get all butthurt about it"
Reply: "YOu only know that because no girl will touch you FAG!."

The RPGmaker forum became so overmoderated that it became effectively unusable. You could get your post deleted, your warn level increased, or even banned if you posted anything remotely "off topic". Even suggesting something like "you may like this ammo script for your game" would get you in trouble if the person didn't specifically ask for an ammo script.

[Eugenitor]

Don't go to the Fornits forum. Ever. Just don't go there. The subject matter is horrific, the posters hate each other, there are some persistent evil motherfuckers, and the moderation is awful.

Official game forums are also usually very bad places, unless the game is Dwarf Fortress. Sony's MAG forum, for example, is a hellhole, made worse by the Maoists who moderate it. Cao Ni Ma, Sony. Cao Ni Ma.

Political forums are also bad, even if you'd think that the participants agree with each other. Free Republic is demented and vicious, RedState is just plain mean, Daily Kos likes to pretend to be a warm and comforting place right until the purity/settling-for-nothing arguments start, and anything involving anarchism or libertarianism is, well, anarchy. And not in the fun happy kind of way.

[Urist Imiknorris]

What is the horrific subject matter?

[Eugenitor]

The only way to explain it would be to quote it, and I'm not going to quote that shit here.