[Retroman]

People have to take the forum non seriously, in order to maintain a friendly forum and an active community...
Otherwise arguments would be constant.

However, there's always an undercurrent of seriousness in having to follow the rules. Eg. You are free to express yourself, but directly insulting/swearing towards other members, or saying highly frowned upon things can conflict with the rules.

Unless someone says something completely outrageous, we should all try to understand eachothers point of views, as I feel a lot of people argue due to personal reasons, such as: Attention, to feel better about themselves, because they feel threatened by seeing someone express more intelligence than them, or the fact they're unhappy and need to let it out on someone etc.

Which means they don't take on other people's opinions at all, and instead argue purely for the sake of arguing. People such as those are in my opinion, people who are displeased with their lives...hence needing to belittle everyone in sight.

They're the only people who do take the forum too seriously in my eyes, those and the people who believe every bad thing a member says. Eg. we had a girl on the forum recently who said something about her friend dying, to which a lot of people offered their sympathies, only to find out she was a liar trying to cause trouble, and roamed the forum saying "Heil Hitler" etc.

Which should be considered proof that you shouldn't take things so seriously, or at least make a decent assessment of the users post to see if you feel it's true or not.