User blog:RaijinSenshi19/Criticism and Buddyfight

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Why can't this community take the slightest bit of negative criticism?

Like, at all?

This has been a running and ongoing problem on this wiki, and outside of it, for quite some time now, and it is not just becoming a concern for me, but it is also getting frustratingly annoying.

It seems like whenever we come out with an opinion that is just slightly negative, other people just blow up at you. Be it something as petty as someone running Variable Cord in Dragon World, or something as serious as how we behave and think in the community.

Anything that might just be vaguely negative is deemed a "Hate Comment", and people get overly defensive of their opinion, while getting hyper-aggresive towards the person putting them into question.

I've seen it happen with Prof, it has happened to and because of me before, and the worst is that a misunderstanding might not even have time to be explained or solved, because the comment threads get instantly deleted when we just feel like it gets out of control.

This place is not a safe space. It's a community wiki that is pretty much a forum as well. Discussions can't be 100% positive all the time, that's just a fact. And if we, as a community, can't learn to adapt to that, we won't grow, learn or get better at handling such issues.

I'm voicing my concern now, before someone gets so "offended" that it harms a big part of the community and potentially puts all of us into jeopardy...

This is Raijin / CobaltClaw signing out for now.

Peace~