So, /r/hobbydrama is going private indefinitely or something and a lot of people in their community are upset. In yesterday's thread I (and many other users) had the ingenious idea of inviting some of them to this place. In case you are unaware, most of the best posters on this site (if not all of them) are previous /r/HobbyDrama long posters. There's @dont_log_me_out, @ticktocktrain, @loli_esports, me, @kaamrev, and perhaps the most known being @PlsNope. Also, if I had to guess I'd say that at least half of this site regularly reads /r/Hobbydrama's weekly scruffle post which usually contains a bunch of short threads dedicated to certain topics. These stem from niche drama in Otaku culture to discussing whether Abby Shapiro's or Milana Vayntrub's breasts are larger. In both cases, the answer and all arguments are meaningless hevel that stems from those discussions being a nothingburger deluxe but you haven't really lived until you have discussed recent patch changes in Final Fantasy or something and how you're totally going to quit this time.
Hence, it was finally my time to reach out to our distant yet so close brothers and sisters and lead them to the promised golden land of rdrama's effortposters. I tried at least a couple of different approaches and thanks to my unconstrained autism I have somehow managed to at least get them to check out this site. Unfortunately for me (and for this site) the drama community already has a very negative reputation even amongst the longposting neurodivergents of /r/HobbyDrama which made this entire endeavour a lot more strenuous than expected, but see for yourself:
At this point the discussion swapped to different online places they can migrate to. One of these is called lemmy which is a link aggregator for the fediverse. You shouldn't really know what this means unless you spend your free time posting questionable young anime girls but lemmy (like all online discussion platforms) has some issues too. In fact, they quickly dropped the idea after seeing this:
Consequently, rdrama seems like a much better place, r-right? So I got many of them to check out the site ... BUT there was a post calling /r/hobbydrama users neurodivergent on the frontpage that you can not miss and all hope was immediately lost :
Also, they literally got filtered by one of the rules (Absolutely NO anti-CCP sentiment):
@jesus got his own shoutout :
In maybe my favorite screenshot two of them are confused by mundane rdrama lingo:
And to end this discussion, someone told a totally true story about reading hobbydrama at a conveyer belt sushi bar only to get harassed by a troublesome /r/4chan user:
Nevertheless, I don't think we are that different from them. Their weird obsession with the Danish belle @\PlsNope is very similar to ours. Apparently, she was a regular among their weekly scruffle threads and she has (rightfully) gained a couple of followers due to her Chris Hansen post that were shocked at her quick assimilation into the dramaverse. Does this mean she was an undercover agent the entire time or that drama users aren't a hardcore gatekeeping cvlt as we keep to say? Who knows really, it's funny either way:
Anyway, I don't think all hope is lost as some of them have retained the ability to see how good the underlying framework of this site is claiming they could steal the framework and make it their own.
So in summary I have failed to achieve something although the fundaments for a blossoming friendship between /r/hobbydrama migrants and /r/drama rejects are definitely within tangible reach.
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Same complaints I get when i try recruiting people irl to join this site
They just dont understand, it's actually a really cool site
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i would never tell people irl i use this site, the unironic bigotry clashes with my wholesome brand of family friendly racism
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no normies allowed, sounds like it's working as intended
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I don't want any users here who unironically talk about shibboleths and cryptofascists. We already have way too many unfunny, legitimately angry wingcucks and shouldn't take on any more until some of the old ones die.
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Yeah, this is the only way to think of it.
There are very, VERY few dramanauts in the world, and even fewer active ones (of the 600-or-so active users, I'd say there's 100 truetards there). Alloying our numbers are lost Redditors, hesitant lurkers, centrists-in-name-only (CINOs), proud chuds, and unfunny wingcucks.
If this site is to survive, it will need to appeal less and less to your average redditor or kiwifarmer, never more. Concessions to effortposting hobbydramaists will never work, because all they'll demand is more and more appeasing, until we're finally just srdines ourselves.
Drape yourselves in pride colors and call each other BIPOCs, lest the normies ask to pay a visit.
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The only thing that can save our site is posting strag Stalag porn
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Tbh, I'd rather have hobbydramaists become the majority of the userbase than the current unfunny wingcucks that plague this site.
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My π¦
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A lot of organizations fail to realize that some human beings only have negative value: this is why DEI positions exist
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I think this site just gives you brain damage so eventually you like it or something
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I just like the pretty colors and the cute kitty cat
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No its to make sure the glowies are visually tortured for their paycheck.
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It's like how in the movie Videodrome, the satellite feed gives you a brain tumor.
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Maybe we are redditors already.
Trans women are women, @TransRightsDonkeyKongs guess
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On my screen I see two dancing men wearing a thong, a cat chasing my cursor, random sparkles, a spider and fireworks popping up
literally a few comments up; "foid", "lolcow", "ca\rp", "upsoren", "mdefugee"
there's no easy way to integrate. Filters are good but they have to be the right filters
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man... what happened to 'lurk two years before posting'
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frick that. immediately start posting the moment you join. let the site culture adapt to you.
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Post immediately
Get bullied like a motherlover
Respond to everyone calling them strags
Assimilate
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If only the entire internet were so enlightened.
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I adapted pretty naturally. I think the type of person who would enjoy this website would key in pretty quickly to non-metadrama jokes.
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good
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It never even began for you.
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This but for dark themes. I honestly don't understand why so many sites have dark themes by default, you have to be driving more people away then you attract.
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Powerusers.
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I don't see how you can think this site is any worse than old reddit. Maybe the logged out nonsense is having a negative effect on new users?
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If they don't enjoy Ricardo I don't even want them here.
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I am physically incapable of agreeing with you more.
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the tilt, glowie and dancing guy awards and the cursor cat are the worse features of rdrama (thank you codecels for the custom css to remove them).
im fine with all of the other stuff. many of them are actually funny like the scooter award
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!animalposters
Marseyhater, destroy him
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This mf thinks he can downmarsey me π tear his butt up !downmarseyrs
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my dog 2 big to hold like a baby π£π£ urs is v cute
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Can you at least include a cute animal pic when you ping?
Thx
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Fair point, I added a corgi to the og post
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RES + old reddit is still a bit better than rdrama
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Aevann I ask once again to let me implement the ability to specify a theme as an url param or even better make coffee the default. I think we are a bit past the point where you and Carp expected a constant flood of undesirables and wanted the default theme to be ugly to keep them away. We need more fresh blood.
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Just enable poor mode for the first couple of days on new accounts then turn it off after they start to get acclimated. We need MarseyGPT or MarseyDoulingo to accommodate newstrags on the linguistic end. I don't think people here would be receptive to creating a glossary of terms because of the sekrit club mentality
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It's literally not even hard to parse what people are saying if you aren't monumentally smoothbrained. You can easily infer from context that Cyprinidae references are about a particular user, Bardfinn is someone this website both dislikes as a person and finds amusing, and that bussy is desirable.
If someone can't pass that first filter, they're probably the kind of person who's so dreadfully boring that you can't even insult them or send them a cheeky bum pic in DMs without them getting IRL offended and trying to tattle to the mods.
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BARD BOT ALERT! Reset the counter! Current counter was: 0 days 00 hours 18 minutes and 43 seconds
Record is 1 days 10 hours 08 minutes and 36 seconds by beamrifle
longest streak broken in the last 7 days was ThermonuclearNecrostorm which was 0 days 11 hours 51 minutes and 25 seconds
Best friend is ACA with 217 mentions
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Nah, awards are OK. I have a userscript that disables them, but it requires clicking a button, so I know how it looks by default and it doesn't look all that bad, I wouldn't worry about it.
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U... ugly?
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@Aevann this sounds like a cool idea. Also how are you doing?
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I worked past the weird speaking, and it was worse when we first transferred from reddit because they still typed like there was a buncha restrictions, your buds could work past it
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