My "real life" community is not a very pleasant one to interact with, and tends to be emotionally damaging for me.

I started using Manifold as an escape from that sort of toxicity, and it's been a much nicer place to spend time and engage in discussion with people. Manifolders genuinely seem like they want to figure out what's true and care about what I have to say, and it's been a rewarding experience.

Recently I did a bad job handling the resolution criteria of one of my markets, and a number of Manifold users have used this as an opportunity to attack and insult me, try to discredit me across the entire site, start flame wars and derail discussions I'm in, and generally seem to be intentionally trying to cause me distress. As a result, Manifold has been more stressful for me lately, and I've started having a bit of an ugh field around checking it.

It remains to be seen whether this dies down after this market is over, or gets worse as more people with a lack of maturity/intellectual honesty join the platform. Either seems plausible.

(Also possible that something changes in the Magic community, but that's less new so seems less llikely for there to be large changes in such a short timespan.)

This market only counts online interactions, not in-person ones. (My meatspace interactions with the MTG community are much more positive, since the loudest trolls online tend to not get accepted to work Magic events, and when they do they act nicer.)