shadowsword87 posted...Y'all post about stuff I'm not interested in, sorry.
Wrestling isn't my jam.
The main problem is that the original point of these topics was to talk about geeky stuff that would tend to die a quick death if it was posted as a separate topic on PotD (because it was about stuff most people here didn't give a crap about), by sort of concentrating all of those sorts of topics into one place where specific people would be more receptive to them. In essence, you could post about stuff and
maybe get people who were interested, whereas if you made a separate topic about it in the wider PotD sphere it would almost certainly get ignored and drown in a sea of shitposting.
But no one person is
ever going to care about every single subject brought up here - the idea is more to pick and choose which discussions you care about and interact with those. And that means the more niche subjects may not get heavy focus (while more general stuff might sometimes seem like it's getting too much focus), so it's easy to feel like no one is all that interested in the same things
you're interested in. At which point this topic just seems as useless as the rest of PotD when it comes to trying to discuss something you like.
It also didn't help that some people would complain that no one ever talks about the things
they care about here, but they also never really went out of their way to try and start those conversations either (or acted huffy and insulted when everyone didn't immediately jump in and focus on their topic exclusively). So their complaints came across more petty and tantrum-ish than anything actually justified. The more active posters bring stuff they're interested in up to try and spur conversations. If someone feels like they're not seeing talk about what they're interested in, they should at least try to bring those topics up themselves (though admittedly, it can be understandable that if no one engages with your topic the first few times you bring it up, you may feel increasing reluctance to bring it up again).
Though personally I've mostly just been gone for a while because I've been kind of busy on and off in real life so I haven't had much time for PotD at all, let alone in-depth discussions or debates about anything here.
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