/cgl/ secrets and general community ideas Anonymous 6073
Since Admin wants to bring back some of the nostalgia of the EGL LiveJournal days, I was thinking that a thread on helping this board gain traction might be good.(Bless you Admin)
crystal.cafe is still small so getting traffic would be small and with many communities moving to Facebook, getting traffic here is going to be tough. I'm sure Admin has some ideas for it but maybe input from other Lolitas lurking here might help.
Recapturing the old days has been tried and failed before so what can we do to ensure at least the tiniest bit of success?
Anonymous 6074
Biggest sticking point and perhaps only key to success:
Post everything. Don’t censor because someone cries about getting called out. Require no names/faces if you have to for some reason, but don’t let it become a hugbox.
Anonymous 6075
>>6074Completely agree. Also don't allow anyone to request deleting a secret. Once it's there, it should stay there.
Anonymous 6076
>>6075I feel like removing secrets is part of what killed btb so I second this. If there are only 10 secrets it doesn't do any good to have half of them removed because someone made a fuss.
Anonymous 6077
Isn't all of this going against the idea of singling people out? a thread like that is better suited for lolcow tbh
Anonymous 6078
>>6077I don't know what you mean? "singling people out" was used on /cgl/ to keep people from making threads about one single person. It has nothing to do with posting a secret about someone.
Anonymous 6079
>>6077“Singling people out” is half the point of secrets, on cgl or anywhere else. Haven’t you heard of Post-Secret? You write secrets to say things you can’t or won’t say to someone’s face. If it’s not about a person it’s just an opinion, maybe unpopular one.
Anonymous 6080
>>6079There's a rule here against creating drama threads and singling people out.
Anonymous 6081
>>6080That’s pretty at odds with the way mods have talked about the secrets so far, including this OP. I’m guessing no names/faces applies, and WE still can’t create drama threads. Having one secrets thread won’t make it lolcow.
Anonymous 6082
>>6080My understanding is rule 9 says drama threads are ok as long as the thread isn't created about a single person so secrets shouldn't really be an issue. If names, faces, etc are blocked out or not included in the photo it seems fine. Secrets also contain general humor not specifically related to drama to a secrets thread isn't ALL drama. Some have even posted their own confessions before.
Anonymous 6083
When is my fuckin secrets thread getting posted
Anonymous 6084
where are the secrets? did we get any
Anonymous 6085
cgl on 4 is getting unbearable. the censorship and mass deletions are too much. I don't spend that much time there anymore.
Anonymous 6086
>>6075>>6076sweetie lolita secrets was even more strict that behind the bows. I don't think you were there during the ''old days''. People just don't care about secrets anymore.
>>6085the trolls and roleplayers are getting to much
Anonymous 6090
>>6086I dont mind you. I hope to read more of your post. But you pist everywhere and you are so dismissive. Kinda kills threads.
Anonymous 6091
>TFW you get nostalgic over becoming mildly excited whenever someone would post their lolita horror stories on angry-lace
Too bad it's dead with the rise in popularity of 4chan since 2009.
