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How many topics by one person is "too many"?
Topic Started: Apr 16 2014, 03:41 AM (2,235 Views)
Skylin
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I was talking cumulatively in general. Not just this one place.
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ShmittlesThePoe
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Super Slash
Apr 17 2014, 01:02 AM
@Shmittles: What do you mean, or are you being sarcastic? I can't tell >.>
lol sorry. Nah, I've got nothing against the number of topics you make. In fact, it would be nice if more people made more topics (myself included), but I think we're all just lazy.
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leaf
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Honestly, I think the biggest problem here is that people already have the perception that you make too many topics, regardless of whether or not you actually do. That perception guides their future reactions, resulting in a lower tolerance than they might have otherwise had without that perception. The best thing you can do is to just keep doing what you're doing and hope people get used to it.
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Apr 17 2014, 08:10 AM
Well, obviously it does happen that often if people were complaining that it does. >_>

:mercury_djinn: :mercury_djinn: :mercury_djinn:
No, they were complaining that I made too many topics, not that they were supposedly all about the same thing.
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Dracobolt
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I thought we said both.

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Super Slash


Hmm, maybe. I don't really remember.

In any case, I will try to stop making so many similar topics, but I've decided I'm not going to try and lessen the amount of threads I make in general. If people don't like them they're more than welcome to not post in them. =P
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Hisui
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Skylin
Apr 17 2014, 10:08 AM
Oh my gosh. You guys are too harsh on Slash way too much >_>

I'm not saying Slash is never confrontational, but man.
It's the Temple. That's normal.
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Apr 17 2014, 06:57 PM
Skylin
Apr 17 2014, 10:08 AM
Oh my gosh. You guys are too harsh on Slash way too much >_>

I'm not saying Slash is never confrontational, but man.
It's the Temple. That's normal.
Speaking personally, if there were ways I could improve or advice people had for me, I would want to hear it. I can't speak for Slash, but this is the general philosophy I apply. If I don't like the advice, I can choose to ignore it. But I think friendship/community allows for criticism. You support people unconditionally, yes, but that doesn't mean you agree all the time with them on every single thing and treat them like someone who can do no wrong. Part of a friendship is helping each other become better people.

So if Slash feels people are being too harsh, I hope he will immediately tell them so, and that both parties be open to the possibility that maybe they were wrong in the subsequent dialogue. But people criticizing you does not mean that they hate you, nor that they are attacking you. Learning to take criticism is a fundamental part of being a well-rounded human being.
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Saturos
Apr 17 2014, 07:45 PM
Voodoo Seccy
Apr 17 2014, 06:57 PM
Skylin
Apr 17 2014, 10:08 AM
Oh my gosh. You guys are too harsh on Slash way too much >_>

I'm not saying Slash is never confrontational, but man.
It's the Temple. That's normal.
Speaking personally, if there were ways I could improve or advice people had for me, I would want to hear it. I can't speak for Slash, but this is the general philosophy I apply. If I don't like the advice, I can choose to ignore it. But I think friendship/community allows for criticism. You support people unconditionally, yes, but that doesn't mean you agree all the time with them on every single thing and treat them like someone who can do no wrong. Part of a friendship is helping each other become better people.

So if Slash feels people are being too harsh, I hope he will immediately tell them so, and that both parties be open to the possibility that maybe they were wrong in the subsequent dialogue. But people criticizing you does not mean that they hate you, nor that they are attacking you. Learning to take criticism is a fundamental part of being a well-rounded human being.
Well said. I agree.
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Skylin
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Again, not even what I meant. Just forget it... not understood again.
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Dracobolt
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Well, you'll never be understood if you don't make the effort to explain your position and clarify. You don't have to, but that's the trade-off, I guess.

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Saturos
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You can't make a cryptic comment, not explain what you mean, and then imply it's our fault when we don't understand. >_>

EDIT: Well, I guess you just did, but maybe you should try to break that habit in the future?
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Gwydd
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I fully agree with Ian's analysis of the facebook status article, and was going to say something similar to it myself. Those 800+ friends are subscribers to a blog, and it's not about them, except when they're called out in it. They can take or leave the statuses, given if they are meaningful to them or not.

But the Temple is something different. Of course not everything that interests us is worth posting. There are some topics I've created that have gotten very little traction – but especially with the Golden Sun analysis/theory topics, I'm happy I made them and they can be found in the topic archivies by diving down the lists if need-be. If there's ever a reason to go back and see those comments, and possibly even pull a Jacobumb on it, then it was better that the topic was made than it ended up in Skype or the snoutbox. But sometimes it's hard to judge what's appropriate for a new topic. We're all learning and growing together as a community.

I also agree with Satty that I'd rather be told to my face if there was a way I could improve. But that's not always the way it works. Sometimes we're just frustrated without being able to articulate why, and sometimes we don't want to articulate why, and not everyone's so blunt as to want to articulate. It might sound cryptic to someone thick-headed like myself, but maybe that person doesn't feel comfortable saying it outright to my face (I'm not referring to anyone in particular right now, by the way; though parallels are welcome to be drawn to the above posts if you think that's useful). Relationships are difficult, and while we have a certain closeness here on these forums because of how rich and supportive our community is, by and large we don't REALLY know each other in the sense that we're hearing each others' voices; nor are we seeing each others' faces as we talk or smelling and touching each other as we might if we were standing side by side. The Temple is wonderful and has created amazing relationships that never would have happened otherwise, and I don't mean to belittle that what-so-ever. But it's ultimately a forum, and there are more misunderstandings when we're not face-to-face in the real. There are already plenty misunderstandings between people whether we're in the real or not.

All I can say then is that we need to keep stumbling, hoping to be better friends and community members, while keeping sight of who we are and the way we want to be. :)
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