Exactly! I think I'm much better suited to forums than communities like LJ. I don't like having to join 8,000 different groups just to try to be heard somewhere, you know?
I know exactly what you mean. There was one comm in particular, one of the big ones, where they kept getting at people for not talking and asking people to intorduce themselves and then the mods proceeded to have this raging conversation amongst themselves. That scenario happened on 3 separate occasions, where I re-introduced myself and was ignored, so I just left the comm altogether.
That's just one comm but it kinda embodies how I feel about the whole set up.