The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The OFFICIAL Cultivation Off Topic Discussion - Cultivation Confessional

Good discussion in here. Arlo you're a fucking baller, some of this stuff I was truly unsure how I felt about, and then you come in with a single sentence and I'm like wait, shit, that is unassailably on point.

Beef, thanks as always for being willing to stick your neck out to try and make the vibes here on point.

Pasty, I'm with you for sure on the alienation of feeling incomprehensible because you got to your own set of political opinions from first principles. It's honest work and the pay is shit.

Lotta good talk in here and I'm not gonna try and touch on all of it. I guess here's the part of where my head's at that hasn't been said:

I wish there was a pub/otd that I wanted to be a part of. Like, I wanna talk about enils plane. That looks cool as fuck! I wanna hang out in the random picture thread, I wanna bullshit about inane horseshit and maybe even occasionally engage in the self-harm of pretending a nuanced political opinion can be made legible to a group of internet strangers.

But the ratio ain't there. I don't want the smoke. I'm an internet old head like most of us. My skin is thick as fuck. I got friends in real life that have opinions or behaviors that make my face scrunch sometimes, but I still hang because they still got a good heart, still bring people together for game night, still do cool stuff for the world on balance, and lord knows sometimes I veer off and act in ways they don't fuck with sometimes too. But any room with crackbaby in it is a room that I do not want to be in. There's a line. Some shit I just can't endorse by standing next to. So I just don't go there. And that's a bummer. But that's also the world, so hey, IDK.

I think OTD and pub being side by side in the list makes their culture blurry. I checked in on pub just now and it's actually not that bad, but because of how they're organized on the site, they're kinda one thing in my mind, and that keeps me out of pub.

I think a good step, that we could do with the functionality we already have in display settings, is put OTD behind a profile checkbox that's off by default for new users. It shouldn't even get shown. And when it does get shown, it should be a couple boxes away from pub. Politics and OTD should be like dead last. And then a slightly heavier moderation hand for some of the more consistently awful people, especially when they breach OTD and take that shit elsewhere. Those two things would sort a lot of it.

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