I guess I am sort of an asshole?
Let you a little about me. Picture this. Your my best friend in the whole world. On every normal day of the year I want to love you and buy you candy and teddy bears and made shrines in your honor. The one day you walk around tank naked and throw peanut butter on people and then try to complain to me when you get arrested or when people give you funny looks. My reply will be this. Are you fucking kidding me? You walked around naked and threw peanut butter on people. Thats pretty dam stupid. You will get no sympathy from me. But I would still be glad to take you out to dinner that night and have great conversations about why potatoes go so well with ranch and bacon. Or maybe we discuss the hologram theory of the universe. It doesn't matter. The point is that I will not sugar coat things just because you are my friend. I will try to help you and I wont try make you kill yourself or anything, but if you are being stupid why should I make believe that everything is peachy when you try to complain to me about people treating you badly? I wont hide it. I will tell you that you are being dumb and try to help my best friend. Who knows, maybe you will make me realize that throwing peanut butter on people is really what everyone should do. You never know right? But I will still tell you what I think. And I will do it because I want my friends to do the same for me. If i try to walk around town while painted yellow and a punching myself in the face I want you to tell me that I look like a fucking idiot. I will respect you that much more for being honest with me.
But I guess I am alone.
There is spotlight problem here on SG. Wait wait I was corrected. There is an image problem? Nah I think it is something else. I am pretty sure it starts with a 'P' and reminds me a lot of high school. I will leave it at that.
Some people do not give the users on this site enough credit. Making something more accessible does not take away from the SGs. The end. The boys are not taking over and are not trashing your image. I guess people forgot that the users they are worried about are the sames ones that will develop opinions about them.
The new format has some issues. And some things about the way the groups are run should change a bit. But SuicideGirls will always be about the girls and the community that loves them. Even if they put a tab right up there at the top that has boys sitting next to the girls tab it will still be about the beautiful women that make up this site and not about a bunch of guys who envy them.
I feel like I am beating a dead horse now. I do not think some will see my opinion ever and thats okay. I probably wont see theirs ether.
I left SG the last time because it started to get very clicky. It seemed to become a popularity, ooops I said it, contest and not the community I had grown to love. I do not think SG is lost to me. But I think some thing should change before I fall back in love with it. Maybe it will just get worse? Maybe not. Really I guess it does not matter as SG is not my life. It is just that I have met a lot of really good people on this site and I am not through meeting new people yet. Even the some of the ones I do not understand have made me want to get to know them at one time or another with their journals or their comments. This is a dynamic place and it is a very nice place to get along with people. But the community cannot become a contest. If this site is overwhelmed with those who get stuck in some weird rut that makes them think the site is not about them any more or think that people are trying to ruin the image or that they will give people the wrong impression it will drive new users away. It will drive old users away. And this place will become just another website full of people who hate each other and are worried about spotlight and if they look good. It will become a high school talent contest that ruins good friendships and not a community where people who dont quite live their lives like the rest of the world enclosed in a bubble and ignorant of anything real.
I have typed way to much for one entry. I have chicken nuggets in the oven.
I know I am an asshole now. But at least with me you will get what you pay for and I wont sell you a car without and engine. I wonder if that makes sense to anyone but myself.
-roguemind
Let you a little about me. Picture this. Your my best friend in the whole world. On every normal day of the year I want to love you and buy you candy and teddy bears and made shrines in your honor. The one day you walk around tank naked and throw peanut butter on people and then try to complain to me when you get arrested or when people give you funny looks. My reply will be this. Are you fucking kidding me? You walked around naked and threw peanut butter on people. Thats pretty dam stupid. You will get no sympathy from me. But I would still be glad to take you out to dinner that night and have great conversations about why potatoes go so well with ranch and bacon. Or maybe we discuss the hologram theory of the universe. It doesn't matter. The point is that I will not sugar coat things just because you are my friend. I will try to help you and I wont try make you kill yourself or anything, but if you are being stupid why should I make believe that everything is peachy when you try to complain to me about people treating you badly? I wont hide it. I will tell you that you are being dumb and try to help my best friend. Who knows, maybe you will make me realize that throwing peanut butter on people is really what everyone should do. You never know right? But I will still tell you what I think. And I will do it because I want my friends to do the same for me. If i try to walk around town while painted yellow and a punching myself in the face I want you to tell me that I look like a fucking idiot. I will respect you that much more for being honest with me.
But I guess I am alone.
There is spotlight problem here on SG. Wait wait I was corrected. There is an image problem? Nah I think it is something else. I am pretty sure it starts with a 'P' and reminds me a lot of high school. I will leave it at that.
Some people do not give the users on this site enough credit. Making something more accessible does not take away from the SGs. The end. The boys are not taking over and are not trashing your image. I guess people forgot that the users they are worried about are the sames ones that will develop opinions about them.
The new format has some issues. And some things about the way the groups are run should change a bit. But SuicideGirls will always be about the girls and the community that loves them. Even if they put a tab right up there at the top that has boys sitting next to the girls tab it will still be about the beautiful women that make up this site and not about a bunch of guys who envy them.
I feel like I am beating a dead horse now. I do not think some will see my opinion ever and thats okay. I probably wont see theirs ether.
I left SG the last time because it started to get very clicky. It seemed to become a popularity, ooops I said it, contest and not the community I had grown to love. I do not think SG is lost to me. But I think some thing should change before I fall back in love with it. Maybe it will just get worse? Maybe not. Really I guess it does not matter as SG is not my life. It is just that I have met a lot of really good people on this site and I am not through meeting new people yet. Even the some of the ones I do not understand have made me want to get to know them at one time or another with their journals or their comments. This is a dynamic place and it is a very nice place to get along with people. But the community cannot become a contest. If this site is overwhelmed with those who get stuck in some weird rut that makes them think the site is not about them any more or think that people are trying to ruin the image or that they will give people the wrong impression it will drive new users away. It will drive old users away. And this place will become just another website full of people who hate each other and are worried about spotlight and if they look good. It will become a high school talent contest that ruins good friendships and not a community where people who dont quite live their lives like the rest of the world enclosed in a bubble and ignorant of anything real.
I have typed way to much for one entry. I have chicken nuggets in the oven.
I know I am an asshole now. But at least with me you will get what you pay for and I wont sell you a car without and engine. I wonder if that makes sense to anyone but myself.
-roguemind
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starbuck42:
Man, too many of you missed the point of number 1 entirely.
starbuck42:
Hehe. It happens. I've clarified things now.