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Thx a lot, human, for sharing such a cool link! (posted on behalf of Bumpy my domestic dinosaur, also not a toy ;)

but most females are not?

What are your sources to say that? I mean is it just a feeling or do you have some data?

Thx, happy to be lurked—or should I say 'lurked upon'? English complicated language much :P

Merci!

Like I said, admins are defacto moderators for every community, so don’t worry too much about it. The previous mod hasn’t logged in in forever and I’ve already made you moderator for now.

Well, thank you! That said, I must confess I'm a little bit disappointed as I hoped I would also get a six shooter, with that sheriff badge :p

More seriously, a big thx too for having unpinned the previously pinned posts. Like you noticed, they were indeed looking like a sore spot and were not making the most welcoming first impression.

Otherwise it should be pretty much business as usual.

That's what I imagine, seeing how slowly things are moving around there and how niche the community is, I don't imagine we risk any massive troll invasion (fingers crossed, all twenty of them).

I forgot to ask: being mod would allow me to do some cleaning in the old existing posts too?

I mean, the creator posted many threads without any comments and, well, I don't know but I think it doesn't make for a great first impression to see so many posts without any comment, despite being over a year old. Maybe I'm wrong there? I don't think they should be deleted, but may regrouped in a smaller number of posts?

Any impression I'm approx 100% clueless on those questions would be correct. Alas.

Thx a lot for your reply.

I'm really not sure I want to be anything more than a contributor, but I also don't see much volunteers to moderate the community if it was ever needed to do some cleaning in whats posted.

Since I have not heard back from the admin/creator of the community so far (over a week), what would be the procedure I would need to follow in order to get that shiny sheri, I mean, moderator badge if I wanted to request it?

There’s also the time component to it.

Indeed.

Guess it’s about which generation you are from. Old generation who grew with PCs tend to be on keyboards, while gen z tend to be on phones.

The thing is I’m kinda stuck in between. Genz doesn’t have attention span to read texts while old gens hate to use mobile phones. I am someone who is tech savy from genz and I love using tech from both generations. I need to find my people.

I always have a hard time understanding that 'gen' thing. I mean, for me people are people. They're not clones of one another that are expected to do/want/wear/like/dislike the same things because they were born around the same year.

But maybe you're 100% right, that's a generational thing, well that would be so for everybody else but yourself since you somehow managed to escape that strict categorisation of behaviours and preferences by sitting between two gens. Suppose your assumption is correct, wouldn't it still be much simpler to experiment writing shorter texts or write them on another medium that would be more suited to long form, to say hoping to find more 'exceptions to the rule', aka more people like yourself, to start having interesting discussions?

Just sayin' ;)

I am a person who prefers texts over calls.

Are you talking about sending long texts on a phone?

If that is so, even though I don't know if you're boring or not, I can assure that I would not read it. I never read/reply to a large text I receive on my phone (ok, maybe I would read it if it was from my spouse, but she can reach me much more efficiently using other means).

I find the screen of any phone way too cramped, and the font way too small, for any kind of long form reading. Plus, the text layout will be shitty at best.

Imvho, typing long texts on a tiny virtual keyboard is like trying to do brain surgery wearing mittens while riding a roller coaster. And reading it would be something like eating soup with a fork ;)

Obviously, that's just my personal opinion, anyone is more than welcome to disagree, but this may help explain, partly at least, the lack of reaction to your long texts? I mean, people simply do not bother reading wall of texts and/or they don't feel like writing their own wall of text on such a poorly adapted keyboard/screen combo?

As an experiment, you could try writing much shorter prose and see if you get more reactions from sending those?

Thx. Hope it will encourage others to share their own or to start doing some in their own journal.

You're somewhat impressive, in your own unique way.

Congrats for being the first to join my (short) list of blocked accounts at your very first attempt. That's a first.