[ SECRET POST #6732 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6732 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 17 secrets from Secret Submission Post #963..
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

From my experience YMMV.

Sometimes I get good engagement (to me, that's when I have at least one comment where there is agreement or sympathy or someone relaying their own experiences that I can find comfort knowing I'm not alone in my experiences). Other times I either get people trolling in the comments (disagreeing and making fun of the secret with needless cruelty) or people missing my point entirely. And then there are times where I get zero comments, and I either don't care or am a little sad.

Because I've sent a lot of secrets for years now, they don't phase me much no matter what the turnout is. I just have moments of "wtf?" when I get engagement that I wasn't expecting.

Some time last year I sent in a secret about the TV show Friends, and the comments on the secret missed the point entirely. I was a little sad that I didn't have any comments I could engage with (because I don't want to reply "that's not my point" to any of the comments), but I got over it.

A few weeks ago I sent in a secret that got no comments and I was expecting that, so I was just like "oh well, the secret is pretty!"

I've said something similar before in reply to a different secret, I think FS is what you make of it.
If you're focused on just ensuring that your opinions are the "correct" opinions and it riles you up when people won't give into your takes, then you're going to find this place hostile.
If you skip over the heated discourses and comment on the more general or nicer comment sections, you're going to find this place not that bad.

There have been trolls being trolls with their bad faith contrarian comments. Maybe there is someone genuinely writing their thoughts and it's just not what I find pleasant but such sorts of comments are par for the course.

Sometimes I engage, other times I don't. I do have a certain limit with how much I'm willing to engage though. Some people seem to get a thrill in their responses when I've hit a nerve or they think they've hit a nerve with me. And these days when I get that sort of energy I'm just like, "Well this isn't fun. Time to stop engaging."

One last thing, I don't think it's a good thing to expect people to enthusiastically agree with your secrets/opinions on FS. You're just setting yourself up to be disappointed or attract trolls with that attitude.

This comm is like any place where random people from different places gather. You'll find like minded people, but you'll also be around people you have little in common with. Know that everyone isn't for you and maybe keep engagement with some people short.