I call what's going on here toxic centralization.
Maybe I'm old school, but for me a forum thrives on decentralized chaos.
Maybe I'm old school, but for me a forum thrives on decentralized chaos.
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@Supergirl Is there anything here in the forum that you don't currently find fault with? 🤔🙄 Contributing constructively instead of destructively would be a first positive signal from my point of view.😉
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@All-in-or-nothing
I'm naming a development in the forum that I don't like. The way you interpret it is your frame, not mine. But the fact that this is reflexively framed as negative or destructive is almost part of the tendency.
I'm naming a development in the forum that I don't like. The way you interpret it is your frame, not mine. But the fact that this is reflexively framed as negative or destructive is almost part of the tendency.
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@Supergirl
I've also stopped smoking again.
That shifts my tolerance curve slightly.
I've also stopped smoking again.
That shifts my tolerance curve slightly.
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•@Supergirl if you are bothered by the (attention, opinion follows) good posts, contributors who invest a lot of time and effort in what I consider to be good content, taggers or whoever, just use Blockierfunktion🤷🏼♂️. Honestly, I do this all the time for accounts whose content either doesn't interest me or is of no added value to me, or simply if I don't like the person as a "contact". To be honest, I can't understand your problem. If you're not interested in content from any of us: just block the entire tagged block user, done.🤷🏼♂️ Then you don't have to bother with the bubble identified and disliked by you and I would have really saved myself a lot of typing.😜
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@All-in-or-nothing
This has nothing to do with a desire for content or individual people.
I'm talking about """a structural development in the forum""", not individual people.
Blocking would not be a solution because it's about dynamics, not sympathy.
This has nothing to do with a desire for content or individual people.
I'm talking about """a structural development in the forum""", not individual people.
Blocking would not be a solution because it's about dynamics, not sympathy.
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@Supergirl but again, you don't notice or care about the whole dynamic anymore if you bluntly block everyone tagged (or whoever else).
If we look at the whole thing outside of a psychology degree, the core is exactly what I mentioned above. The dynamic that, from your subjective point of view (in my opinion), is supposed to have taken hold here is apparently (and I don't mean this personally) only noticeable to YOU. Under Tenbagger's post there were countless otherwise silent readers and non-"active" members of the writer/commenter community who either don't notice this dynamic or don't find it annoying like you do. I personally find critical questioning absolutely reasonable and appropriate, but seriously: if there's only one person for whom the supposed problem is a problem, maybe we're looking at a perception problem? Edit: and you noticed this whole "development" over the course of a month? I'm just saying, you've only been part of the community since November 2025 😉
If we look at the whole thing outside of a psychology degree, the core is exactly what I mentioned above. The dynamic that, from your subjective point of view (in my opinion), is supposed to have taken hold here is apparently (and I don't mean this personally) only noticeable to YOU. Under Tenbagger's post there were countless otherwise silent readers and non-"active" members of the writer/commenter community who either don't notice this dynamic or don't find it annoying like you do. I personally find critical questioning absolutely reasonable and appropriate, but seriously: if there's only one person for whom the supposed problem is a problem, maybe we're looking at a perception problem? Edit: and you noticed this whole "development" over the course of a month? I'm just saying, you've only been part of the community since November 2025 😉
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@All-in-or-nothing
Again. My point was that when communication is concentrated on a few marking circles, forums become deserted in the long term. That's not a private opinion, that's basic knowledge of group dynamics. Outsiders automatically withdraw because the discourse space becomes narrower.
The fact that a handful of otherwise silent readers make positive comments does not disprove the dynamic. It may change their current perception, but not the structure. After all, truth is not democratic and the silence of the majority is not a counter-argument either
By the way, the date is a technical artifact... Profile change. I know the community, otherwise I wouldn't notice the development.
Again. My point was that when communication is concentrated on a few marking circles, forums become deserted in the long term. That's not a private opinion, that's basic knowledge of group dynamics. Outsiders automatically withdraw because the discourse space becomes narrower.
The fact that a handful of otherwise silent readers make positive comments does not disprove the dynamic. It may change their current perception, but not the structure. After all, truth is not democratic and the silence of the majority is not a counter-argument either
By the way, the date is a technical artifact... Profile change. I know the community, otherwise I wouldn't notice the development.
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@Supergirl
A little service info: Saturday evening 🙄.
Priorities and stuff.
A little service info: Saturday evening 🙄.
Priorities and stuff.
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