Thread:Harold89/@comment-7855039-20140125041955/@comment-4910132-20140125163559

Obi the LEGO Fan wrote: List of predictions:

1. Multiple spammy blog posts per day

2. Hundreds of spammy edits per day

3. Users not knowing each other very well

4. Most of the good users had left

5. Total lack of respect amongst users

6. Excessive number of dupes constantly being made

Which of these actually came true? 1, 2, 4, and 5 haven't happened. 3 is arguable, but a lot of us still know each other well. 6 is true to an extent, but we haven't had many dupe problems lately.

1. Sam is right, we have at least one or two, sometimes more, "spam" blogs a day - but we aren't clouded with them entirely.

2. That was more like early 2013. While it wasn't hundreds, it was near a full hundred. Not many people do edit anymore. It's either you edit, or you don't.

3. I'll have to be honest on this one, and this is pretty much the main reason I decided to post one off different from Sam - I don't know people well. I know a select dozen. But what about the other fifty plus? I've seen them around. I've seen them chatting with other people in main chat. But I've never taken the chance to know them indivisually. And I don't like that. I wish I could talk to them 1-on-1, but it's a daunting task. Plus, I usually come off as a creep when I'm trying to talk to people I don't know. On a side note, I do try to welcome people that joined recently and I haven't met - but aside from that. ..

4. I'd have to argue with Sam, while it's true we gained new users, really good ones, they simply cannot replace the old ones. Not in my heart.

5. I'd say there's at least half the population of there that either makes grudges or carries a grudge.

6. Pointing back to 3, whenever I welcome someone, half the time it's a dupe of an original user, and they have some really, really really stupid reason for the dupe. Or they just don't own up to it. Recently I've seen more of the former. Also these name changes. If I see ONE more I do believe I'm going to throw myself of a cliff. I can't even count how many name changes I've seen. My question to you - why?