Obviously you knew I would agree with every word! But I really, really agree. (and thank you so, so much ♥ ♥ ♥)
idk, this sounds like self-promoing, but I ended up not having to do anything for this so it's really everyone-else-promoing: I fully expected to have to do some screening or banning on that post I put up this weekend, I was nervous to leave for a couple of hours to go to the gym, I don't know how people mod all the time.
but ~ no issues. There were dozens of people chatting on that post, sometimes on really polarizing topics, and I did not have to step in once. I froze one of my own comments, because it came out a little more negative than I'd intended and I didn't want to bring down the tone. That was it.
which I don't think is actually due to my Jasminesque powers of happy mind control (those don't work over the internet!), I think there are a whole lot of people who for whatever reason think their fandom is an uncomfortable environment for just embracing the love, but they REALLY WANT TO. And I think that speaks to the pervasiveness of the judgment, but also, that a lot of people don't want to do that. I don't really know what to do with that hypothesis, but it is an encouraging thought.
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idk, this sounds like self-promoing, but I ended up not having to do anything for this so it's really everyone-else-promoing: I fully expected to have to do some screening or banning on that post I put up this weekend, I was nervous to leave for a couple of hours to go to the gym, I don't know how people mod all the time.
but ~ no issues. There were dozens of people chatting on that post, sometimes on really polarizing topics, and I did not have to step in once. I froze one of my own comments, because it came out a little more negative than I'd intended and I didn't want to bring down the tone. That was it.
which I don't think is actually due to my Jasminesque powers of happy mind control (those don't work over the internet!), I think there are a whole lot of people who for whatever reason think their fandom is an uncomfortable environment for just embracing the love, but they REALLY WANT TO. And I think that speaks to the pervasiveness of the judgment, but also, that a lot of people don't want to do that. I don't really know what to do with that hypothesis, but it is an encouraging thought.