User blog comment:Ildsjel/An Open Letter/@comment-14365624-20190817170646/@comment-14365624-20190817201450

I'm not looking back on a reality that can never be again; I'm saying that back then, while it took some time for new users to become big parts of the community (as it's always going to be, in any walk of life, when you're new to a group of people), I don't remember ever being outright ignored if I asked people to RP, and I was always, always welcomed on chat. You and I joined DARP at a time when there was an influx of new users, too, but I never felt like I wasn't wanted here. That's what some new users feel like now. Regardless, that's not really what my comment was meant to focus on, but thanks for bringing attention to it anyway. I just used it as an example of how at the time we all had our differences still, but somehow I remember those differences being resolved in a mature manner, not the backstabbing and pettiness we see now. What I don't understand is how we've supposedly all grown up and matured, yet we're regressing back to expressing our disagreement with outright rudeness. From reading the blog, I didn't get the impression that the whole point of it was to villainise the admin team: I think that's become the focus because people are looking to be upset with Jaye at the moment. What I got from the blog is that she is frustrated that DARP isn't fulfilling what she sees as its full potential, and she made a lot of good points that are being ignored. I also didn't actually call anyone petty - I called us all childish. Which is the truth. My issue here is not that I'm some old user reminiscing about the "good old days", it's that I'm an adult who wants us to be able to resolve these issues as a community in a mature fashion. That's not what I've seen in response to the blog, even though it appears to me that Jaye actually was trying to be impartial here. But that's just my two cents. I truly am sorry I offended you with my comment, but it doesn't change my central point: everyone here needs to grow up.