Hey there. I'm a _belong member who never had the chance to vote on your application (since I've been INCREDIBLY busy the last few days), and if I get penalized/kicked out for saying this to you, so be it. I don't need a community that would censor its own members. (Feel free to delete this comment too, if you have a problem with it being here.)
You were treated unfairly. I think you misunderstood exactly what you were supposed to do for Question 15, and you said a few things I would disagree with (Ravenclaw certainly has its flaws as a house, for one thing), but nothing you said was particularly offensive or worthy of the way you were responded to. I thought you were one of the strongest, most intelligent applications we've had in a while, and by about question 6 I wanted you for my house. (Gryffindor. You scream it.) I knew exactly what you were saying in those sentences people misinterpreted, and they were in no way offensive, stereotypical (save for Slytherin, just SLIGHTLY, but a lot of applicants make that mistake and it's an easy one to make), insulting, or unfair.
I understood your answer to Question 23. I have no idea why it was considered bad or rude to essentially say 'yay, people as weird as I am'. That's my anthem every time I get that lucky.
You have every right to express yourself and be irritated when someone doesn't even take the time to read your application correctly and understand what you're saying. There are nicer ways to respond to that than you did, I will give them that. I think it's your response to the votes, not the application itself, that got you expelled. But this 'it's just our opinion' stance is bullshit. We're not discussing our favorite character or the football game on Saturday or even politics; a sorting application deals with YOU as a person and whether or not you'll be accepted to a community. You have a right to have that application read rationally and fairly instead of watching people hunt for 'subtle' house bashing at every corner and jumping at the slightest accidental hint of it.
This isn't the first time I've been upset with the way my own community sorts people, though it's the most extreme case. I'm this close to leaving because of it. So I just thought you'd like to know that at least one member of _belong didn't support this.
So I'm not just taking up space, I thought this fic was lovely. :) I'm not really a big Marauders fan (and I can be very unkind about Sirius, actually; he sort of makes me angry), but I do understand where he's coming from and feel the tragedy that his life was. The way this story ended, in particular, was absolutely beautiful.
Oh, dear. Now I feel like crap. I sort of bashed your community in my last post. Well, it is my journal and I do feel I had the right, but I knew (there were two or three people who weren't at all offensive towards me, even if they gave me a no vibe vote) that not all of the people in that community deserved the insult. I hope you understand that I was not talking about you, and that I was way to angry by the treatment to think rationally. I admit that I was a bit too rude to that first poster. I honestly felt like saying much more hurtful things but, even though I was way beyond caring that I would get expelled at that point, I thought I would keep it down. Not in my journal, of course.
Anyway, you have no idea what your post actually means to me. I was truly hurt by the way I got trated. It just confirmed everything bad I've ever thought about myself, but at the same time I know it was uncalled for. I think that´s what hurt the most. I don't think I said anything too horrible in the application to deserve that. I can tell I made a mistake about the way opinions should be given about the houses, but I think it could be spotted a mile away that I was talking about my perception of the books. A noice, hey, do it again, would have been enough.
I'll stop ranting. Thank you, thank you thank you, you're my favourite person in the world right now. Even if you don't like pwetty Sirius, teh, heh
You were treated unfairly. I think you misunderstood exactly what you were supposed to do for Question 15, and you said a few things I would disagree with (Ravenclaw certainly has its flaws as a house, for one thing), but nothing you said was particularly offensive or worthy of the way you were responded to. I thought you were one of the strongest, most intelligent applications we've had in a while, and by about question 6 I wanted you for my house. (Gryffindor. You scream it.) I knew exactly what you were saying in those sentences people misinterpreted, and they were in no way offensive, stereotypical (save for Slytherin, just SLIGHTLY, but a lot of applicants make that mistake and it's an easy one to make), insulting, or unfair.
I understood your answer to Question 23. I have no idea why it was considered bad or rude to essentially say 'yay, people as weird as I am'. That's my anthem every time I get that lucky.
You have every right to express yourself and be irritated when someone doesn't even take the time to read your application correctly and understand what you're saying. There are nicer ways to respond to that than you did, I will give them that. I think it's your response to the votes, not the application itself, that got you expelled. But this 'it's just our opinion' stance is bullshit. We're not discussing our favorite character or the football game on Saturday or even politics; a sorting application deals with YOU as a person and whether or not you'll be accepted to a community. You have a right to have that application read rationally and fairly instead of watching people hunt for 'subtle' house bashing at every corner and jumping at the slightest accidental hint of it.
This isn't the first time I've been upset with the way my own community sorts people, though it's the most extreme case. I'm this close to leaving because of it. So I just thought you'd like to know that at least one member of _belong didn't support this.
So I'm not just taking up space, I thought this fic was lovely. :) I'm not really a big Marauders fan (and I can be very unkind about Sirius, actually; he sort of makes me angry), but I do understand where he's coming from and feel the tragedy that his life was. The way this story ended, in particular, was absolutely beautiful.
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Anyway, you have no idea what your post actually means to me. I was truly hurt by the way I got trated. It just confirmed everything bad I've ever thought about myself, but at the same time I know it was uncalled for. I think that´s what hurt the most. I don't think I said anything too horrible in the application to deserve that. I can tell I made a mistake about the way opinions should be given about the houses, but I think it could be spotted a mile away that I was talking about my perception of the books. A noice, hey, do it again, would have been enough.
I'll stop ranting. Thank you, thank you thank you, you're my favourite person in the world right now. Even if you don't like pwetty Sirius, teh, heh
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