I don't think you should be calling people immature for that. It's quite rude. People can do as they please and they shouldn't be put down or judged for that.
I don't see how limiting who can post on your profile furthers you from the community. It allows people to choose who they think should be able to contact them, makes the ability to post on the person's profile more valuable and if someone really wanted to contact them, they could just PM them. Besides, it's not like they're limiting who can view their posts.
Yuno, the reason some people do this is the internet, with people attacking others for their beliefs and opinions and what not, its very stressful, and its not comforting to see so much people spam your profile with hate messages that you don't deserve. How ever I do agree with the statement "talk to someone" it does help quiet a bit with online stress
I mean, technically, by limiting posts they're doing exactly that. I mostly only follow friends I know quite well, so if I were to make my profile private, the trustworthy people would be the people with perms.
People can do as they please, but people will always judge and that's alright.
People are free to judge you and personaly I think its great, it doesn't matter what you do, however small of an act, you'll get an opinion about it. and be it positive or negative you have a choice. Either accept it and build upon it or ignore it.
Limiting a profile means a member made a decision,
a decision to ignore criticism accept a selected few that pamper him and give him compliments and positive feedback.
I do understand how tempting it is, to just leave all the negativity behind and stay in a warm world where you are praised all the time, in a way that's what I did here. But I didn't ignore the negative comments, I accepted them and improved myself to become who I am today.
I don't think that people want a personal echo chamber. I would hope that my friends would be unafraid to notify me of my flaws or if I'm doing something wrong, not compliment me on everything I'm doing. If someone wants to limit negative comments, or 'block them out' as you imply, then I think they're doing that as they want actual constructive criticism. Not, "omfg u suck go fucking die you fag" comments.
To nepeta: in my opinion the only reason to limit your profile is if you want to go off grid for a while, if you stay limited for a long amount of time it will hurt your interaction with the community.
To Lunar (should I still call you whimsy?): why the name change?
I've kept it limited due to the recent election stuff and the attacks. They got extremely bad beyond words and it's just something I cannot deal with rn
Thing is I'm not sure if whim is an exception or not, I git my fair share of toxicity from the community and guild drama and even irl drama with wynn members.
Never along my wynn history I had to limit my profile, I kept debating with people even when everyone was against me. sure I got banned for getting into arguments along the way.
But I accepted the bans, overall they made me a better person.
But with whim, people seem to be against her doesn't matter what opinion she has voiced. this has happened to me in the past but I just ignored it and was backed up by my friends.
I advise to make your profile free again and let your friends help you.
If needed pm me every single problematic post and I'll deal with it myself.
Different people deal with problems in different ways. Hate to some people is just water off the duck's back, while others it really stings. Making your profile private acts as a filter for the hate and blocks a lot of it, which can help people who are particularly sensitive.
I already followed 1000 people, so I can't really limit my profile by those who I follow... rip too late to turn back if I wanted to... lucky me, I'm still fairly new here so I haven't gotten hate here yet, but I have certainly gotten it IRL and it's changed me a lot... if I ever get hate here, I don't even know what I'd do...
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