HEY. Fucking read this.

[howling_off_key]

So I realized most of the people I consider my TDF peers are now more or less gone from TDF. Can you give me a few sentences as to "what happened" or what, if anything would bring you back? Did you outgrow it? Did you get a life? Get into a fight?

Basically: What would make TDF "better"? New rules, less rules, new mods, more mods, new look? Should

Comments

[orange_plushie]

I think we're facing a spiral of negativity in Shout and TS. New members who are interested in finding their form and communicating with their newly found daemon are alienated by the amount of depression on the forum. Who wants to join a forum about talking to invisible friends in which so many people have mental illnesses ? The only ones motivated to stay are those who benefit from TDF as a support group. Do we want TDF to be a support group /: ? TS is not better than twitter, there is 0 communication. You only get a reply if your post is depressing enough, and I feel downright awkward to post something not-depressive in TS

[_wolfling_]

Where I'm coming from (also this is Edie, hi): I read some of the daemonic threads, and the discussion ones, I still find the idea of daemonism wonderful and useful, I talk to Sago all the time and value what the forum's brought me immensely.

I am frankly sick of listening to the whining that goes on from a few very specific members in both Top Secret and Shout. I don't like that problematic statements are being allowed to pass by without comment, and when they /are/ commented on, the person who brings it up gets jumped. I literally don't even bother to say anything most of the time because it's not worth the hassle, it's really not

[exanimate]

I would be down for more mods too, but I agree that it's more that TDF has grown into something that - while it isn't in most cases 'wrong' - isn't what the older members wanted of it.

[sololobo]

Honestly at the moment, I can't see how more mods would help. We've had the slowest modding year in a really, really long time. Other than deleting a double-post or something, we haven't really had to do -anything-.

Even that goes to show that people are just "posting and walking away" and aren't really invested in it or each other. Not that I LIKE policing everyone all the time, but I expect there to be a few arguments or disagreements here and there, and that hasn't happened in a very long time. I can't remember the last time we needed to discuss anything as mods or actually DO anything. Well, other than April Fools.

If it gets more active and more interactive, it might be useful to have more mods, but at the moment there's no way that we don't have enough.

[theredison]

There hasn't even been an angry poll in the poll thread to try and change anything in so long. =___= What's up with that? I thought things felt dull, we need more action up in this shit.

[duster]

I just kinda drifted away from TDF because I found it kinda cliquey. There's the idiot kids and the elite circle of older members and that's kinda it. If you were in the middle ground, you were a ghost

[sololobo]

"bitch, post, done". lol. Perfect way of putting it.

[paintedkirin]

Mostly I'm in agreement with the people who have already commented. I was always older than most of the forum, so I'm not as bothered by everyone being young as a lot of others seem to be. But part of what was nice about the forum that I really miss now is that I used to KNOW everyone. Even though I didn't do chats and didn't get on MSN, I still felt like you guys were my friends and that I knew everyone who was active on a fairly personal level. And I don't feel that way anymore

[paintedkirin]

Also, thanks for starting this discussion, Leah. It's something that's been bothering me for a while, but I have a tendency to just unhelpfully frown at it and then wander off. I'm glad someone is actually taking initiative, and if you want help or backing with anything, just let me know.

[laniii]

I feel like even since I joined, the overall "tone" of the forum has changed drastically... it seems so much more depressive, as others have said, and I also find there's much less communication - even in threads like Shout, no one has conversations anymore. I feel like it's difficult to make friends on TDF with the way the main chatty threads are now, I have no desire to post in the middle of a bunch of depressing posts. I would totally also support deleting TS and Shout, and disabling anon functions outside of RAs to maybe cut down on the damaging things being posted.

Maybe there could also be a new subforum for discussing other typing systems... since there are already threads on other typing systems scattered around the forum it would be cool to have them all organized!