ayrt and i'm an old guy too and honestly it's entirely possible we might be getting an influx of people from both non-anon communities which are by default less acerbic and given that i've seen more than one person express surprise at the idea of anonymous communities in general, it may be that your guess it's actually 100% correct. i'd rather give some of the newer people the benefit of the doubt — i think us older millennials don't always have the best perspective on how much things have changed in such a short period of time with the internet and the culture around it because we've been around for most of the changes and dwrpers in general tend not to branch out a ton to other rp comms? this is just me spitballing btw I might be wrong.
and yeah i also get a little "ok :/" at some of the catastrophizing of new (and sometimes older) people on anoncomms whenever they see some spots of negativity on here, but i try to imagine myself in their shoes as maybe someone who just straight up doesn't frequent or know about anonymous communities to know that it's a commonplace thing to see in places where people don't have to put a face to their comments.
sidenote: i really do think dwrp would benefit from a centralized unanonymous (non-anonymous?) community too. something about us having like, ugly flop wankgate and then here, which is nicer by far but you still randomly see someone wild out about the dumbest shit just does not give a person a good impression ykwim. i can see where they're coming from. i'm not proposing a hugbox or whatever but it'd be nice to see more mentoring and camaraderie for sure. we used to have spots like that in ljrp and it sucks it's not a thing anymore.
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and yeah i also get a little "ok :/" at some of the catastrophizing of new (and sometimes older) people on anoncomms whenever they see some spots of negativity on here, but i try to imagine myself in their shoes as maybe someone who just straight up doesn't frequent or know about anonymous communities to know that it's a commonplace thing to see in places where people don't have to put a face to their comments.
sidenote: i really do think dwrp would benefit from a centralized unanonymous (non-anonymous?) community too. something about us having like, ugly flop wankgate and then here, which is nicer by far but you still randomly see someone wild out about the dumbest shit just does not give a person a good impression ykwim. i can see where they're coming from. i'm not proposing a hugbox or whatever but it'd be nice to see more mentoring and camaraderie for sure. we used to have spots like that in ljrp and it sucks it's not a thing anymore.