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Off Topic / Re: blockland: the community that killed the game
« on: February 24, 2023, 03:23:26 PM »
I find this topic to be really interesting because it puts to words what I sometimes wonder but can't articulate.
A lot of times as I've grown older when I think about this forum specifically I mostly think of how it, somehow, became a breeding ground for lack of a better term, hatred in all forms. I think having read (and am still reading, to be quite honest, because everyone sharing their experiences deserves to be heard now and forever, and deserves better than what they experienced,) the things that have happened here through the eyes of an adult, rather than experiencing them as a child, it is no loving wonder so many people who have come through here are the way they are. I would not be lying if I said that one of the best decisions I made was to just stop looking at this website. Being surrounded by people who are bred and encouraged to be awful, ESPECIALLY as an impressionable child who wants to fit in, could not, and for many people did not end well. It's difficult to look back on the person that this environment pushed myself and others to be. I don't want to even look at my history here because I know that it cannot be good. I feel sad that when I look back on this place I barely feel nostalgia but instead relief that I didn't turn out worse.
It's harrowing to imagine, let alone accept that many horrible things have happened as a result of non-existent yet somehow hostile moderation, and allowing troubled, despicable adults and children to intermingle and be influenced to be awful. And that's all from just reading this one topic.
Y'all deserved better. Y'all still deserve better. I hope that better comes for all of you.
A lot of times as I've grown older when I think about this forum specifically I mostly think of how it, somehow, became a breeding ground for lack of a better term, hatred in all forms. I think having read (and am still reading, to be quite honest, because everyone sharing their experiences deserves to be heard now and forever, and deserves better than what they experienced,) the things that have happened here through the eyes of an adult, rather than experiencing them as a child, it is no loving wonder so many people who have come through here are the way they are. I would not be lying if I said that one of the best decisions I made was to just stop looking at this website. Being surrounded by people who are bred and encouraged to be awful, ESPECIALLY as an impressionable child who wants to fit in, could not, and for many people did not end well. It's difficult to look back on the person that this environment pushed myself and others to be. I don't want to even look at my history here because I know that it cannot be good. I feel sad that when I look back on this place I barely feel nostalgia but instead relief that I didn't turn out worse.
It's harrowing to imagine, let alone accept that many horrible things have happened as a result of non-existent yet somehow hostile moderation, and allowing troubled, despicable adults and children to intermingle and be influenced to be awful. And that's all from just reading this one topic.
Y'all deserved better. Y'all still deserve better. I hope that better comes for all of you.
