- Joined
- Oct 16, 2019
Obviously worrying too much about account stats and stickers is a bit silly, but this is also a site filled with social neurotics who'll think way too hard about how people respond to what they do and whether or not they're being a bother; especially for newer users I'd imagine they worry a lot about stickers. That's just how the internet is, without tone and context people have a lot of room for interpretation, and that interpretation tends to be far and away more negative/adversarial than reality. In the absence of feedback they'll presume negative feedback.
If the goal of having restricted stickers in Deep Thoughts/Happenings is to get people to be nice, why not just disable only ones like MATI, dumb, politisperging, autistic, etc and leave the rest there?
I'm not familiar with exactly why thunderdome stickers were restricted to begin with, I'm assuming A) to prevent socially maladjusted shut ins from waging emotional warfare on each other through rage-rating and B) because it was funny to see A&H throw a fit (at one point I heard it involved @Dyn, which I usually suspect regardless tbh), but I really doubt it could hurt anything to encouraging engagement between users so long as it's neutral at minimum. Colorful ratings help give newbies a little pat on the butt by showing greater investment than a regular like but less spotlight than a post.
If the goal of having restricted stickers in Deep Thoughts/Happenings is to get people to be nice, why not just disable only ones like MATI, dumb, politisperging, autistic, etc and leave the rest there?
I'm not familiar with exactly why thunderdome stickers were restricted to begin with, I'm assuming A) to prevent socially maladjusted shut ins from waging emotional warfare on each other through rage-rating and B) because it was funny to see A&H throw a fit (at one point I heard it involved @Dyn, which I usually suspect regardless tbh), but I really doubt it could hurt anything to encouraging engagement between users so long as it's neutral at minimum. Colorful ratings help give newbies a little pat on the butt by showing greater investment than a regular like but less spotlight than a post.