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As much as I agree with your post on some points, talk blogs isn’t the reason for how bandom is today. Maybe the people sending those messages in are because talk blogs can’t help what gets sent to them and there’s been a handful of good, band and just plain ridiculous blogs in the past.. That post as much as it was good in some points just opened a can of bad worms.

i think the can needed to be opened and talk blogs are part of the reason why bandom is how it is now. without them people wouldn’t have a place to go to vent their frustrations at that level. there would be less of a chance that the people they’re talking about would ever hear about the shit that they’re saying. talk blogs are the problem because talk blogs give people a license to go off behind a gray face under the guise of venting which was a good thing for a bit, but it’s gotten to a point where that privilege is being abused so we just need to cut it off. just stop it. don’t give people the option to talk shit about each other quite that publicly. it’s not doing anyone any good at all. 

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so i know i can’t be the only person who’s noticed how fucked up and negative band rp feels right now. groups can’t stay open and people aren’t engaging as much as they used to on dashboards. characters are hardly talking outside of their friend groups and mods have to consistently remind people that they have to interact to keep the dashboard fun. i’m not sure if anyone else has noticed that this was hardly an issue when talk blogs weren’t as popular in the community. when people had a problem with other writers or an issue with mods they’d talk to each other about it or they’d just tell their friends and move on. they weren’t used to blasting each other anonymously on talk blogs, that wasn’t the first thing they thought about doing anytime something happened. now the knee jerk reaction is to run to a talk blog to talk shit ad nauseam.

i know talk blog mods feel like they’re doing band rp a service by giving writers a place to rant about their weird rp encounters and that was definitely true for some time but i think at this point they’re doing nothing but making band rp feel less like a community of writers enjoying their fun little hobby and more like an exhausting waste of time. if we’re not having fun then what are we really getting out of this? what are we doing here? 

the fact of the matter is that talk blogs offer nothing to the community. they don’t function like rph blogs. you’re not really getting any sort of writing help from them. they’re not giving you face claim resources. they’re not offering you anything other than a place to talk shit which was harmless before but it’s not anymore. it’s really having a negative effect on how people interact with each other within this community. it’s limiting our options in terms of groups. talk blogs have literally caused countless groups to close, sometimes before they even had a chance to fully open. that’s not me exaggerating, it’s happened more than it should. i’ve had conversations with people about how they’ve been discouraged from modding because of the way people go after groups and mods on these talk blogs when something doesn’t go their way. 

people are always talking about how they hate bullies and they’re more than willing to toss the word around when it comes to other writers in the community but they can’t see that by going to talk blogs specifically to talk shit about writers who aren’t really doing anything besides writing on the internet, they’re being bullies. talk blogs promote cyber bullying simply by existing as a forum for people to anonymously air their grievances, with or without proof. it’s promoting the ooc drama we’re all trying to avoid. it turns a little disagreement into a huge issue by involving a bunch of people who don’t have the full context of what happened. and most of the time the things brought up on talk blogs are so trivial. they’re things you could simply ignore because they’re not actually hurting anyone, it’s just something the anon finds annoying but then by bringing it to a talk blog it turns into a huge debate. it’s essentially just a bunch of he said/she said bullshit and it’s ruining the community. it’s literally creating the most toxic atmosphere i’ve ever seen in any rpc.

talk blogs, in my humble opinion, are part of the reason why band rp is in such a shitty state right now. they’re divisive and they encourage senseless negativity. it’s honestly hateful and writers are being actively discouraged by them. people are so worried about being blasted on talk blogs over nothing that they’re not running successful groups, their characters aren’t interacting with new people on the dashboard, it’s not as easy to get plots anymore with different writers because no one trusts each other. new groups pop up or old groups try and reopen and they immediately get shot down because someone sends a message to a talk blog speculating on whether or not they’re the same mods from some already dead game. what does it matter? really, what does it matter? they bring up one experience they had in a game that most likely wasn’t that big of a deal, but because they were upset about it they try and paint it as this huge problem that the group was continuously facing. they make it seem like the mods were incompetent and self serving and they completely vilify them by telling people that that’s what you should expect from them all the time. they don’t treat it as a single experience, they use it to damn mods and to damn groups.  

it’s honestly sickening how people act and react to things on talk blogs. it’s disgusting and i wish we as a community would just stop depending on them. we need to end them completely. the community doesn’t need them. if something is that big of an issue, people can write about it on their own blogs. if you want to do a psa about a dangerous writer then write about it on your own blog. 

i chose to write this post from one of my blogs because sending it to a talk blog would defeat the purpose. and this isn’t me attacking talk blog moderators. i understand wanting to give people a place to talk about their experiences and in turn offering your opinion. that’s cool, but seeing how people talk about each other on these blogs and seeing what it’s doing to the community is a sign that they shouldn’t exist anymore. 

they just shouldn’t.