@nepihileni replied to your post [ooc discussion: first contact]
((i personally always think it's my job to greet the followers! they came to my blog and followed me and so i kinda repay them for that if it makes sense?))
@amicicidalgambler replied to your post
(( if the person you follow always does greeters its on them, otherwise its on you? tbh i dont assume someone who follows me necessarily wants to interact straight away
(( i put these two in the same post because they seem to be sorta along the same lines? you both touched on greeters, which is another thing that factors in.
i actually wasn’t familiar with the practice of greeters when i first joined the tumblr rp community, but when i noticed people doing them, i tried to follow along. when i was first starting out with felide this was a really good opportunity to reach out to absolutely everyone, and i built a lot of my foundational network that way. however, i made the mistake of thinking it was a practice everyone kept - which was not the case - so i would follow someone, thinking that action sufficed for interest - aaaand nothing would ever happen.
as time went on and my blog grew in popularity and reach, though, i realized why not everyone did them. it’s fucking exhausting, quite honestly. after you reach a certain point, greeting absolutely everyone is nigh-impossible, following back everyone is basically useless, so it made sense for me to slowly stop doing greeters. now i just do them when people catch my eye - ancestors + leijons in particular. but i worry i’m now on the other side of the dilemma i found myself in as a newbie rper. (as if i’m not STILL a newbie relatively, lmao)
there’s also the problem of people giving REALLY dry/slim responses to greeters, or the people writing the greeters not having enough ideas to write diverse greetings. i think people worry that one-size-fits-all greeters/copy-pasted greeters are seen as lazy? but honestly, if you’ve got a greeter that sparks conversation, imo you should definitely keep using it.
okay this is getting long, i’m gonna end it here and open the floor again to discussion
