What the Hell Happened the SSLF?
Jun 9, 2017 0:10:38 GMT -6
Post by assassinfred on Jun 9, 2017 0:10:38 GMT -6
Should clarify the the "Problem with Rise" thread (to my admittedly flawed memory) was not an attack on Rise or its contributors, but the massive saturation of it that was making it difficult for anything else to reach the important position of the 'most recent post' spot that a lot of sign-ups and RPs are reliant upon to get activity. It was never a personal attack on Rise although it was pretty much immediately construed as that by others that were eager to take cheap shots.
I wouldn't really blame anyone for getting annoyed at constantly being bumped down by what appeared to be like 4 topics in the same universe for the same reason I don't blame people for getting annoyed at all the 'official' wafflegrid nonsense, although making the topic about Rise rather than the actual issue Rise was bringing into light was a pretty poor decision.
There was a way to bring up the issue without pissing anybody off, but that isn't how it played out. So no, while the thread may not have been intended as a personal attack on Rise, it certainly came across as one. Maybe the Rise community overreacted. I'm not above admitting I can overreact to things sometimes. But there was definitely some wording in there that seemed like it was meant to piss people off.
Regardless, that thread never should have existed, and whether the intentions of the thread were pure or not, there were other ways to bring up the problem of over-saturation. You don't just call a topic "The Problem With Rise" and expect the people who put work into it to be okay with it. Whether we had on Rise-coloured glasses or not, any thread titled like that isn't really going to go over well.