I have been playing MMO's since the beta of Anarchy Online (still my favorite MMO of all time) and I've always read the forums from time to time for any MMO I was currently playing but these forums stand out FAR beyond any other MMO forum I have ever read.
Yes, everyone on the forums for most games are there to post about something they are annoyed with. When you are upset about something, you want to post about it. When you are happy and enjoying a game, you don't typically come to the forums to post about how much fun you're having or how game mechanics are working the way you like so the majority of posts on ANY forum are going to typically be complaints of some sort. Not all topics will be negative, but on average, a majority of them will be negative to some degree.
My first, and less annoying observation here is that while all MMO forums are filled with a majority of negative posts, these forums are absolutely cluttered with about 95% negative posts most of which will have 2 or 3 threads on the same damn page complaining about the same exact problem. Yes I understand that some of these problems are valid and worth discussing while others are problems like whining about travel time and are aspects of almost every MMO out there. A lot of these ridiculous posts make me wonder if these people have ever even played an MMO before they come to these forums to complain about the smallest issues like the lack of end game content because you flew through to game in 2 weeks and have nothing to do.
Now my second and far more irritating observation is for all these whiny threads, whether they are valid gripes about the game or not, the responses from others players consist of nothing but ************ at the OP about how he/she is an idiot/selfish. I understand how overly stuffed these forums are with people ************ about constant server down times and yes it sucks, don't lie to me and tell me you are totally fine and content with it. Am I going to get on the forum and post about how angry I am about it? No because it doesn't change/help anyone. But when one of these posts do show up, what the **** drives hundreds of you people to post 58 pages of comments either complaining about the the OP or ************ amongst yourselves?! I saw a post the other day that complained about time it takes to go from planet to planet with 162 PAGES of replies almost all of which told the OP he was a moron and its part of every game and to quit playing the game because obviously he can't handle it. 162 PAGES?! are you people serious? Yes these threads are either redundant or a typical aspect of any mmo, but just because they are, does that warrant logging onto the forums so you could be the hundredth or even thousandth person to call some kid an idiot for posting about it?!