anon, you're fine. i didn't mean to single you out in particular and no feathers ruffled here. i thought i was replying under me to catch everyone, but your comment was the most thorough and i really do appreciate it. apologies friend.

you made a great list of things for me to check through and make double sure on. i don't believe i'm making it difficult for people to interact with and i'm not a screaming meany. i hear you on seeing plurks that are difficult to reply to, and no one wants to see negative stuff all the time. its frustrating though when others on the plurk list only have to go waah and everyone goes running and here, not a waah in sight and its all crickets. i'm in a couple of games now but they're small and that's probably the problem, i'm just not an ooc fit. icly is a different matter, which makes it more weird when i had no problems with getting chat on plurk previously

thanks for your replies anon, and yeah, they've actually helped me double check myself here. keep up the good work.