Are things slower around here?

[E-Man]

After reading Kosheh's huge post, that actually makes sense. While we did have our booms due to big spiriting projects (I won't deny that the most significant booms are related to the first and third Mario & Luigi games), it is basically the same users who form this little community at its core. While that isn't a bad thing, we always have room for a few more.

Now that I think of it, we did manage to bag several good users to add to our ranks recently, including Iocus, Level 1, Psychospacecow, and even Final Smash once he got with the program. Even though it's not apparent now, this place is still gathering users and some of them turn out becoming actually beneficial to our forum once the sand shifts away.

VGR's community has seriously always been like this and nothing has changed - not even from when I started posting on Pixeltendo. It's always been a tightly-knit community of users - but the "community" in question is what's different.
The only difference is that if you pushed users around on PT they'd push back, and our hostility was what actually drove people off. It was always active because here we were - teenage keyboard jockeys commanding the OS in front of us. Nowadays, we're generally more friendly but instead of pushing people away, we just draw pictures for people we like.

Hm, I can see that. While we do have good causes and reasons when we act hostile to others who provoke us, I would actually agree with anyone who would call anyone out for that kind of of behavior. I know that acting that way is sometimes effective and some of your friends would agree that you "did the right thing" and you were "in the right for acting that way," it still doesn't make it completely OK at its core. Sometimes, there are users who don't mind this kind of abuse, but there are others (myself included) that ended up getting emotionally wounded with various degrees of deepness. Even though I hardly do anything to irritate people on purpose, there are some people who actually yelled at me and even went as far to cut off friendships with me for some of the quirks I had. Obviously, I fought back to keep them in line and prevent them from giving me this treatment, but I ended up getting more hate that way (which lead me to take even more measures).

While I am still not afraid to fight fire with fire at this point, I went on a path since then to severely cut back on that kind of behavior after it not only didn't do so well for me, but also after realizing that I would be no better than the users who actually act aggressive to drive me away. Now, I just act generally positive to anyone regardless of how they treat me and even left my Deviant ART account nearly abandoned to put a stop to coming into contact with more spiteful users when I already had my share to begin with.