As some OG members may know I used to post here a lot before Era launched. But at the time I had a pretty tight community in the BritGAF thread and as some moved over I followed.
The same community never really coalesced over there (we have a WhatsApp group now so it became kind of redundant) and I just never found it as fun and carefree as GAF. It was all so super serious and WAY too heavily moderated. Constant “user warned for next to nothing” messages just made it feel too much like work.
I would constantly feel like I had to reword or just delete posts entirely so as not to tread on any of the carefully distributed eggshells all over the forum, it just felt way over analysed.
Alas, I inevitably got banned for effectively saying what I’ve said here (with slightly spicier language), so I’m back posting here.
And it’s nice to be back! I’ve already had a little nosey about the place and it already feels like a much more fun and open place to be.
I have been so happy to be here and to be able to post my shit thoughts without a constant worry about overstepping some imaginary boundary.
EXACTLY!
It’s SO precious and overly worthy over there it’s stifling, I come to a forum to have a bit of a laugh and some carefree discussion not to put the world to rights.