So a lot of people have said a lot of things, and a lot of things has mostly been "It used to be better, no community, new players suck, everyone's lazy"
But I knew all that about SL. And I know everything there is to know about the common cold except for a cure. Does that help me when I'm sick?
What I'm trying to say is good job everybody for pointing out stuff we all pretty much know, so does anyone have any suggestions or ideas as to what we should do about it?
I like this website, I like the format and the characters I have, I like the friends I've made and I like RPing with you guys. So I'm not content to just sit here and say "Yup SL is getting flushed down the toilet and all I'm gonna do is piss on it."
Excuse my French, but I put in way too much time, effort and money to my character, to my rp, and to this site to let you assholes just rag on it and not make have anything to say about how to fix it.
"It used to be better!"Have a good long think about how the 'golden days' you lot seem to consistently reminisce about took place when Kishi hadn't introduced the plethora of admittedly-OP concepts and abilities so commonly utilized today. Those 'golden days' will never come back, there can be 'silver days', but they'd never live up to the past's rendition.
"New Players Suck!"
New players feel like they need a head start. Well, maybe we ought to direct them to a page here that explains how you need to build your character over time and with RP.
Maybe we ought to be more strict, forcing people to have witnesses to them getting and claiming things so that people don't just meta-take stuff. Maybe we should show them the ropes instead of stepping on them because they suck. If you don't want to do that, then don't complain about new players. End of story.
"There's No Community!"
Maybe because we're all jerks to each other whenever we try to have a discussion about anything? How about we try and prevent discussions from becoming aggressive and spiteful. Stop each other from being mean when we don't like someone else's opinion. And for god's sake stop with the snide, snarky comments that make you feel cool and tough and tuff and kewl. Nobody on SL has ever taken one of your rude and witty comments to heart, and nobody ever should, so just stop. Just grow up and stop.
"Everyone's Lazy!"
Lead by example, whether you're a kage or a genin, just choose not to take the easy way. This isn't something we can just "fix" with glue and paint, people are lazy because we let them get lazy, because we wanted to get lazy too.
I'm lazy. I'm the laziest person here. I bought my account, I just claimed random stuff that I made up, I don't have a consistent story for my character, and I never commit to a single thing.
Well, allow this to be the first thing I'd like to commit to. Like Yumei said, there might be no more golden-days, but we can at least get silver for now. And I'm gonna bet if we all actually made an effort to make SL better, the golden-days of yore would be in reach again.
Sorry for the sappy, but it's true.