Long time coming
So. scans_daily. Why I left.
So... essentially, I left Scans Daily because I no longer felt like I could post there without having someone yell at me.
This isn't new. During the first rule overhaul, I left for some time and came back. Things changed. The community just didn't feel like it was fun at the time. And then the Suggestions post came up. Several people, myself included, once again expressed concern at how certain rules could be interpreted. The mods did their best to ease the concerns of several people, but a few (again, myself included) were not fully convinced that such a thing was possible.
And then a few posters began to make some comments that frankly, bothered me a lot. Apparently, the fact that I felt uncomfortable with a subset of the rules made me a hateful bigot.
And that was just too much to bear - the fact that I had legitimate concerns over the rules which were shot down, not by the mods, but by other posters whose comments made me feel uncomfortable. I didn't want to reply then because the entire post, and the community by proxy, was making me ill.
So I took a cue from several comments there. I left. And I'm not joining again.
I joined Scans Daily back in the day because it was a silly place where I could post almost whatever I wanted and talk about comics with people. Unfortunately, the community stopped feeling the same after these two incidents, and so, I left. Several posters made me feel like I didn't belong there anymore. And that's about it.
Now, will I continue making posts about comics? Yep. Just not at Scans Daily. I'm still planning on posting comic book stuff at my website, but I somehow managed to break my layout's comments so it's kind of pointless if nobody's going to bitch at me, aheh. So while I'm not bound by the Peter David rule, I am forbidden from posting nudity and adult stuff, which really sucks.
And that's about it. I already mentioned this in Twitter, but I disagreed with the Scans Daily mods. I didn't like how things happened. But I also refuse to act all high and mighty, like I'm better than they are, because of it. I'm not that kind of person anymore (and the fact that someone can act like that is pretty... weird.) They saw things one way, I saw it another way. And yet I still consider them my friends. Funny that, huh?
In conclusion: Hey that Jeph Loeb guy really sucks, doesn't he?
So... essentially, I left Scans Daily because I no longer felt like I could post there without having someone yell at me.
This isn't new. During the first rule overhaul, I left for some time and came back. Things changed. The community just didn't feel like it was fun at the time. And then the Suggestions post came up. Several people, myself included, once again expressed concern at how certain rules could be interpreted. The mods did their best to ease the concerns of several people, but a few (again, myself included) were not fully convinced that such a thing was possible.
And then a few posters began to make some comments that frankly, bothered me a lot. Apparently, the fact that I felt uncomfortable with a subset of the rules made me a hateful bigot.
And that was just too much to bear - the fact that I had legitimate concerns over the rules which were shot down, not by the mods, but by other posters whose comments made me feel uncomfortable. I didn't want to reply then because the entire post, and the community by proxy, was making me ill.
So I took a cue from several comments there. I left. And I'm not joining again.
I joined Scans Daily back in the day because it was a silly place where I could post almost whatever I wanted and talk about comics with people. Unfortunately, the community stopped feeling the same after these two incidents, and so, I left. Several posters made me feel like I didn't belong there anymore. And that's about it.
Now, will I continue making posts about comics? Yep. Just not at Scans Daily. I'm still planning on posting comic book stuff at my website, but I somehow managed to break my layout's comments so it's kind of pointless if nobody's going to bitch at me, aheh. So while I'm not bound by the Peter David rule, I am forbidden from posting nudity and adult stuff, which really sucks.
And that's about it. I already mentioned this in Twitter, but I disagreed with the Scans Daily mods. I didn't like how things happened. But I also refuse to act all high and mighty, like I'm better than they are, because of it. I'm not that kind of person anymore (and the fact that someone can act like that is pretty... weird.) They saw things one way, I saw it another way. And yet I still consider them my friends. Funny that, huh?
In conclusion: Hey that Jeph Loeb guy really sucks, doesn't he?