Thread:Nightsbladeoftruth/@comment-8412271-20130425195130/@comment-6061247-20130427044833

Kefke Wren wrote: Just...first of all, "I came here because I wanted to share my pastas with you people and get good things said about them "

This may sound hypocritical coming from someone who generally has their pastas well-received, but never take that approach. If you go looking for people to like your work, you are only setting yourself up to be disappointed. Even the best written stories will have some detractors. The same things that some people may see as strengths in a story can be taken as its biggest flaws by others.

As to the way new users are treated, I'm very sorry you feel that way. I can only speak for myself, of course, but I certainly don't try to drive people off. There are a few reasons you may have gotten a bad impression, though. First of all, admins here have to deal with things when people mess up. Not only is that stressful work, which tends to bring out a degree of pessimism, it also means that we're very busy, and you're statistically more likely to hear from us when it's admin-related. In other words...most of our responses are when someone screws up, and we're forced to step in. Also, you may have just been looking in the wrong places. We all have friends here, not just among the admin staff. They all started out as new users at one time.

The most basic bottom line, though, is just that respect is earned, not given. I may well be the living proof of that, since I only became an admin by impressing people enough to be recommended to the position. Which brings me to an observation. I've tried, since even before becoming an admin, to be fair with people, and put thought into what I say. The first thing that I ever saw from you, BlackDragon, were some remarks that would be fairly easy to see as antagonistic, and what seemed like a lot of ego. I am sorry, but it quite frankly doesn't surprise me in the least that you got a negative response. Picking fights and then complaining about how people aren't friendly is not a good way to make friends with anyone, but especially not when it's their job to deal with troublemakers. Couldn't agree more.