Originally Posted by
Alpha Bitch
Can anyone point out to me again what exactly is the issue that we want to solve? Because I lost track of things. Everyone agreed that groups are a natural thing to happen, so the very existenz of groups can't be the problem at hand. To me this looks like one group telling off another group for being a group. I am not meaning to attack anyone with that statement, I am just trying to explain myself.
If the issue is that something about one or several groups around here makes RYL a less supportive and safe community then can people please explain to me how that happens and what they suggest people can do to prevent that from happening?
I think part of the issue is people who are not in your group feel threatened. You guys are very close and have all your own lingo, hijack all the threads, talk about everyone outside RYL (or at least it seems like that, to me and a few others at least), and if someone so much as disagrees with you then they get stomped out by the rest of your group. I think people get a bit worried and concerned that they can't compete with any of you, and that because they are not part of your group of friends that they aren't wanted, etc. I think also people get worried that you guys will put out a hit on them (for lack of a better term), and then will be ridiculed. So this makes people scared to say things.
I am using you as a general statement, not you personally. I also may be talking out of my arse but I am spouting off ideas that seem rational and came up in the discussion about this with the last "cool group" as it were. I used to get lots of PMs telling me I was a horrible person for being in a "cool group". It was fun.