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Arturas -> RE: hazing new posters (12/10/2014 1:51:13 PM)
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ORIGINAL: GotSteel
So just in case somebody hasn't heard my spiel by now I'm often horrified by the way new posters are treated around here. Upon stating this in the past I've received the response that usually the new poster does something to instigate the responses and I think that's true.
Sometimes it's the case that the poster has an uncommon kink that doesn't fit in around here, but should we really be throwing rocks over that, seems to me an awful lot like we're living in a glass house on this one.
Sometimes the poster stumbles onto a hotbutton topic, but really how can we reasonably expect someone new to know where all the mines are buried?
Sometimes it's that the poster makes some spelling mistakes or doesn't express themselves well. Thing is expressing oneself on a forum is a skill and we're talking about posters who are new. It's a very rare person who's perfect at well just about anything their first time.
Don't get me wrong, there are work arounds to these problems: learning to post elsewhere/a substantial amount of lurking. But isn't that setting an awfully high bar to be allowed to post here without getting heckled off the site?
I mean we're basically asking new posters to hit the ground running in the middle of a mine field, is it at all surprising that has a tendency of not working out very well!
About this time in my argument someone's apt to make a comment about this is just how it is. Thing is that's not actually true, I can point to examples both in meat space and on fet of communities who are night and day different, think about it for a second, can't all of you do the same?
There are some who believe they can sit in judgement of newbies here. They use the word "we" as if such a thing exists. I suspect this is because Collarchat is the only place they can do so and if they tried this in a club it would end badly for them, at the very least the Dungeon Master would bounce them out on their high minded butts.
"Uncommon kinks"? I agree that we must respect another's kink. I'm unaware of any kink that will not fit on Collarspace with the exception of using kids.
"Hotbutton topic"? Some people simply like to pick on people and use that as an excuse. You can see them at work in the political threads.
I agree, some are very intolerant of mistakes newbies can legitimately make. What is surprising is some of those who are intolerant were newbies themselves not just a few months ago and indeed are still so, while pretending to be part of some kind of a "we" group here. I fear they do so to be part of the "we" clique I see referenced, just above, in this thead.
"Spell checker"? Ah yes, the spell checkers. There are a few of those here too. Misspelle or use the word Dominant incorrectly and they jump for joy and reach for the keyboard with a gleam in their eyes. The spell checkeers check our Harbrace adherence also. I suspect this is their only real kink so I respect it. :)
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