The_Picard_Maneuver

Sorry that my response was snippy. This is a pet peeve of mine from reddit, and it seems to have carried over to lemmy, where any time someone expresses some form of happiness (especially involving kids/family), someone invariably shows up in the comments to tell them that they dislike it.

This was simply a wholesome post about a guy being hugged by his wife and daughter, saying "wow, that guy must be the richest man in the world", and your immediate response to it was "Huh, guess I'd rather be poor".

This same caption could have been placed over a photo of a vet who loves animals, an artist who gets to paint in their dream home studio, or a nature lover looking out into a national park, and if your first thought is to comment under those telling everyone how much you dislike dogs, art, and mountains, it would also be rude.

Playing Demon's Souls after all of the Dark Souls games was brutal. I swear, the walk backs were harder than almost all of the bosses.

Life comes first, and I hope everything goes well with the upcoming surgery @[email protected]. Please don't add a single bit of stress regarding anything on lemmy to your life right now.

I didn't catch this drama live, but someone linked it to me after the fact, and I was honestly pretty disappointed to see an admin talk to users this way. I don't think the reporter was wrong to notify the admins that someone was advocating murder on their instance, and they certainly didn't deserve to be banned and mocked for it.

Then I started seeing other similar posts (like the one Blaze linked in a different comment) showing that this wasn't an isolated thing, and I was a bit disheartened because I love sharing memes here, but it's really hard to build a community when users are worried about an admin lashing out at them. I've lost some trust. =(

The Uruk-Hai, however, are more doors.

It wouldn't be a wholesome post without someone in the comments searching for a way to find fault. =(

In this case: literally just a cute picture about someone finding their true happiness with their loving family rather than material wealth.

Same. Life is great!

I agree with what the commenters are saying in that thread about it being a shame for a big community to lose activity, but with regards to the original issue and the other screenshot you linked to, it seems like an admin temperament issue rather than an isolated incident. It's hard to build a community when users have to be worried about an admin lashing out at them after a bad day, and I think trust needs to be earned back before I would want to contribute there again.

Wholesome.

Oh, me too! I think sometimes it's people sorting by TOP/ALL or just scrolling all the way through some of the less active communities.

Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but I thought it used to be possible, then for a number of years they started "archiving" posts and not allowing interaction, then they changed it back.