That's a shame, back when I installed it years ago (05ish I think) the community was one of my favorite things about the distro.
Yeah I remember it back in the beginnings, it was quite friendly. Now I see people get yelled at in #archlinux for having an opinion on x vs y which is opposite of what the majority of #archlinuxers think. The forums are like "not my problem fix it noob, here is half a wiki page"
I've never had a good experience with #archlinux, and the forums are generally quite slow. I do recommend the arch-general mailing list however.
You should have seen the community 7+ years ago! They've done a lot to make the community more friendly and inclusive.
Probably because of comments like what astrodust is spraying everywhere.
I agree somewhat, but I tend to find that it's newbies who have managed to migrate away from MyFirstLinux™ that make all the annoying noise coming from the Arch community; so perhaps it's not fair to judge Arch users as a whole.