Welcome! A con: because the community is small, and the site is dependent on users applying their own moderation abilities to their feed, trolls are quite visiable when they first start out. The same can also be true for spam. Another con: because the site is dependent on users applying their own moderation abilities to their feed, people who are assertive of their views but have opinions that are radically different from the rest of the community need to be thick skinned enough to brush off getting muted/blocked by people who dissagree with them. The flip side of the metal is that the attributes that cause those cons are also why I keep coming back.
The smaller community also increases the signal-to-shitpost content. Once a website hits a certain size the low effort threads and posts start to gain traction and force the good people and good posts to the fringes. Hope you are doing better, man.
If you click on the "People" link at the top of the page, you go to a list of the active core of the site. What I did when I started way back then was look at all the badged content and run through the comments that others felt the community as a whole needs to look at.
Sometimes I want to just bomb the fuck out of Global to fix that. I figure it wouldn't be appreciated though, so I just post stuff I either A) really want to talk about myself or B) see what other people have to say on something even though I don't have anything myself to add.
That's the shit we do appreciate. Well that, and necrocomments in old threads. so I just post stuff I either A) really want to talk about myself or B) see what other people have to say on something even though I don't have anything myself to add.