#idk i feel like if i were going to complain about hermitcraft i would do it either privately or on a platform where they WOULDNT read it

[quaranmine]

so yesterday i saw that there was an upopular opinions thread on the hermitcraft subreddit. which i, like, immediately pegged as a bad idea due to my previous encounters with negativity on the subreddit. but i decided to not post about it because i figured that between og posts and answering asks i've made well over a dozen posts since january about this exact topic, and there ain't much sense to continue to double down on it. yall already know my opinions about negativity in the reddit community.

but then i saw this today and?? idk i just feel bad for the hermits. i know they've reinstated the post and allowed it to remain up, and that Xisuma apologized for the hermits' knee jerk reaction in asking to take it down, but i honestly don't feel like they were out of line when a lot of the comments on that thread got really personal. the comments may have been manually reviewed, but a lot of them were straight up complaints and harsh towards hermits and not constructive.

I'm not sure what to add, other than that I think we were right back in February to try and start a thing for being more positive in the comments section of the hermits' youtube videos. I think we were right in wanting to make an effort to be more vocal of our positive feelings rather than just lurking. I don't want them to feel demoralized. I make zero claims on knowing anything about their true feelings or personal lives, because it's not my business to speculate on, but we do know that more than one hermit is going through something difficult from their own statements about it. I also don't want to make anyone in the community feel like they can't express a negative opinion or give criticism because that's not a good look either. We don't need to become an echo chamber of only positive things.

But...I guess just overall. Let's maybe try to be encouraging? I personally comment on their videos more than I used to, but I still have a lot of work to do on that since I often still just absentmindedly click off onto something else.

#discourse #sort of. #negativity #idk it just breaks my heart to hear the words 'it caused a lot of pain to the hermits' #like...to my knowledge they didnt ask for the S8 crit posts to be taken down so like. how did that make them feel? #idk i feel like if i were going to complain about hermitcraft i would do it either privately or on a platform where they WOULDNT read it #anyway :sob: this just made me feel bad to see it made them feel bad #if u have thoughts i'll answer asks