#;opinion

[dirthara-an]

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Since 'tis the season again, here's your friendly reminder, that harassing other people into donating, or changing their lifestyle during Christmas season is not in fact, making the world a better place. It's just making it easier to control.

What do I mean with that?

During Christmas season, it has become - especially in communities strongly permeated by western cultures - a common tradition to a) actively promote charities or b) actively promote lifestyle changes "for a better world" (especially concerning vegan lifestyles, environmentally conscious lifestyles, etc.). And while that in itself is not a bad thing, what's with this supposedly being the season of love and kindness and all, in recent years, especially here in online communities, this tradition has been changed into a near perverse guilt tripping culture.

Instead of "let's share our love this season, by working together for this good cause" it has become "how dare you enjoy the season, when x bad thing is still happening". And I get it. Sometime it feels frustrating to see all the bad stuff happening and how seemingly easy it would be, if everyone was just working together. But this is not helping at all!

Before you share a donation post, or one of those suggestions on how to change your life to make the world better posts, I sincerely beg you to stop and consider first: Is this post positively encouraging others to help, or is it actively trying to shame them into helping.

Because - and I can't believe people are still surprised by this - shaming people into doing, what you think is right, is not making them morally better. It is just teaching them, that shame is more important than kindness.

[lancehelps]

‘ello, belomi! we were wondering if we could please bother you for an opinion on our brand new appless peter pan rp? thank you in advance! 𝔀𝓮 𝓱𝓸𝓹𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓪 𝓶𝓪𝓰𝓲𝓬𝓪𝓵 𝓭𝓪𝔂 ~

hello darling !  personally i am not a big fan of dark themes for mains simply because i think it’s more difficult to pull off good looking theme right off the bat. i’m not the biggest fan of the scrolling header at the top it feels a little tacky , and i feel like the main image could use text because i was a little confused to the vibe of this at first. other than that i thin the rp is really well made even though the rp is well done it’s well written and the pages are easy to navigate ! i love the pages even though i’m not a big fan of the text color because it’s a little hard to see. i love this overall, wish you the best of luck !

[lancehelps]

hey, k! could we get an opinion, please? camp cypress is a brand new 8x8 roleplay based around a group of camp counselors, and their time working at a vintage summer camp in northern california. thank you!

         Off the start the rp looks really clean an well graphiced so that’s good. I also love that your icon specifies “camp” in the title because otherwise just ‘cypressrp’ would have been the most confusing thing ever. However that being said, Cypress makes me think of Cyber-Press more than the trees... anyways. I like that the camp has been around forever and is very vintage, it’s a cute setting for this kind of roleplay even though I really do think camp rps / school rps / celeb rps are way overused. From personal experience from working at camps though, 28 is pretty high for a base level position, usually those will go to people ages 18-24. Usually small groups I’ve seen in the past have at least some sort of mini-skeleton at minimum for the application but I can’t find any ? A completely OC small group rp seems like a weird thing to me since there’s not much to go off of in how characters should be / act with each other. Especially with the open positions, that’s a hell of a lot of combinations that you’re going to have to sort through ? That’s going to be hell for you as an admin just fyi especially since applicants can pick whatever the hell they want. There’s a bit of work to do organization wise in my opinion. You have quite a few of the popular POC fcs on your Most wanted and a few underused non-poc fcs as well which is great, but I would add a few underused POCs too ? But that’s me.  I love the around camp area !! There’s nothing wow about the RP, I’d probably get bored and move on quickly just by reading through what I have so far.

tl;dr - Needs a bit of organization work on the admin’s side to make it easier to accept / open but other than that pretty average and well set up congrats.