Have had three completely separate frustrating "community management" situations in various places around the Internet today, and it's just exhausting to deal with. And frustrating! I'm someone who still remembers the Internet being this great new hope for communicating with other people, and everyone feeling excited about being able to talk to people from all over the world.
But today? We have people whining and complaining about every little thing, being rude to people who are interested in things that they don't like and becoming outright abusive towards people who write things that they don't agree with.
It really freakin' sucks, it does, so I'm grateful for the few places where things remain quietly respectful and friendly — like around here, or among my smaller groups of online friends in more "private" (for want of a better word, since nothing is really "private" online) situations. Doing anything in "public", though, seems to attract the very worst sort of people — even if the thing you were doing in public wasn't the slightest bit provocative or controversial.
I do want to say I'm especially grateful for those of you (and others) who show up in my YouTube comments; across a couple of years of doing things on YouTube at this point, things have never gotten out of hand in any way in my comments section — and in fact, there have been some wonderful discussions there.
Of course, the fact my YouTube videos attract double-digit views and are fairly niche-interest most of the time is probably something to do with this, but I guess that just sort of backs up what I said above — keeping things on a small scale and surrounding yourself with friends and acquaintances who love what you love is always the best way.
Anyway. Time for bed and to not think about the Internet. Have a pleasant evening!
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