Newbie question

[herodotus]

But, you are here over a year which is much longer than most I would have thought. So you are hardly a newbie?

As a newbie here I'd just like to as the question;

A lot of people seem a bit paranoid, cynical and bitter, just an observation, but what happened?? Why does there seem to be a lot of bad blood between ppl?

Maybe people will be happier this year