I haven't bothered looking at this thread since my initial question was answered. Now that it's up to 14 pages at the time of this post I actually took the time to read all the posts.
I think this more or less cements my positive outlook on things to come. Having been in a lot of different communities lately, it's nice to see actual opinions being made and genuine efforts to promote growth are in force.
My 'main' forum is for lack of a better description, a hateful self deprivation exercise that leads to extremely hurtful personal attacks and a few e-celebs that spend all of their time trying to 'shit where they sleep', so to speak. It's really tiresome and the people who try to help make things better, aren't being helped by the mods properly. Slaps on the wrists and turning the other cheek and all that. It's a complete warzone every day and while there was really hard workers there are just as many that try to invalidate anything being done positively.
I won't lie tho, this is an incredibly entertaining read and I think as long as people continue to be honest and don't spend time ass-patting instead of addressing problems then we should continue to be just fine. Obviously it's not an overnight process and by no means is this suddenly going to be the best place ever, but I can say that I'm comfortable for once. That hasn't happened in a long time.
It's not perfect, but it will do. I think the potential here is strong, at the very least. As a long time lurker (A very long time) I think it's finally gotten to a point where people as a collective are figuring out how this is going to work.
Best of luck to the mods, I'll try to keep out of your hair and mind myself. I can't stand doing your job these days and I applaud you all for bothering in the first place.
I think this more or less cements my positive outlook on things to come. Having been in a lot of different communities lately, it's nice to see actual opinions being made and genuine efforts to promote growth are in force.
My 'main' forum is for lack of a better description, a hateful self deprivation exercise that leads to extremely hurtful personal attacks and a few e-celebs that spend all of their time trying to 'shit where they sleep', so to speak. It's really tiresome and the people who try to help make things better, aren't being helped by the mods properly. Slaps on the wrists and turning the other cheek and all that. It's a complete warzone every day and while there was really hard workers there are just as many that try to invalidate anything being done positively.
I won't lie tho, this is an incredibly entertaining read and I think as long as people continue to be honest and don't spend time ass-patting instead of addressing problems then we should continue to be just fine. Obviously it's not an overnight process and by no means is this suddenly going to be the best place ever, but I can say that I'm comfortable for once. That hasn't happened in a long time.
It's not perfect, but it will do. I think the potential here is strong, at the very least. As a long time lurker (A very long time) I think it's finally gotten to a point where people as a collective are figuring out how this is going to work.
Best of luck to the mods, I'll try to keep out of your hair and mind myself. I can't stand doing your job these days and I applaud you all for bothering in the first place.
