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Well, last night's thread sure was (and continues to be) a wild ride.
I'll be blunt here: please believe me that I'm experiencing problems frequently enough to make me not like this place. And **please** try to understand how a repeated onslaught of suggestions on how I myself need to solve those problems doesn't give me much solace.
If I have to be responsible for managing this with whatever tools or strategies you throw at me just to be here happily, that's not something I need in my life.
Please feel free to tell me to pound sand. I don't need to be here, and "successful YouTubers" is hardly a marginalized group.
But also understand that I *want* to be here. I'm not leveraging this platform to spread my videos, I'm here to offer a way for people to connect with me. And I'm here to have fun.
At this point I need to self-censor a /lot/ to keep it fun. I'll try that for a while, but it's a damn shame I need to do it.
@TechConnectify This is rather sad. I like it here as an alternative to Twitter, and it’s great to have you and people like you here, but I keep hearing about issues like that and I fear for the longevity of this platform and it’s future outside of the very niche geeky place.
@dansilov The problem we have to reconcile is all the folks who want it to stay a niche geeky space.
Sometimes they're outwardly hostile towards ideas that would make the site easier for folks like me because the flatly don't want us here.
I don't expect that faction to ever go away, but hopefully more people see the faults in that line of thinking.
@TechConnectify Yeah, I think it’s a big part of the problem. Hipsters (doesn’t matter if they’re geeky) always want to exist in a space they ‘discovered’ and hate it when that place becomes popular. I hope the platform evolves and at the very least gives you better tools to fend this shit off. Ideally, shield you from it. And I hope you stay long enough to benefit from it.