My take on SpaceHey being divided (Top Blogs / Napo drama)

As one of the many people who migrated away from SpaceHey over to here, I'm quite tired of the shenanigans that was happening over on SPH. The constant debating over SpaceHey's safety features and profile images being all broken, the Napoleonite drama... Very tiring.

But it also made me realize just what percent of the internet I really find rude. Don't get me wrong, there are many kind souls waiting to be found, and lots of cooler things, and it's no big deal just to block and filter out all the bad apples!

But there is also so many people being unnecessarily rude, which poisons the well on both side of the argument. I understand that SpaceHey is a sacred site for some, and literally a home some people cannot afford to lose (really, I was in that position too!), but you tend to turn people away from a community that you complain about being dead, when you openly shut down and chase away people considering hopping to an alternative site over the original site's problem. Dismissing the Napoleonite people, like "Bye bye napo user! I'm never switching" is so unbelievably rude, it does the opposite of making me want to revive SpaceHey as you so wish, and just pushes me away faster.

I can argue that Napoleonite's execution and handling has been VERY sloppy (with a lot of public exposees being on SpaceHey's top blogs -- good PSAs but also drowns out the cool stuff), from the Goat thing, to what I feel is a community with a handful of people I would never want to interact with. So, I decided to leave Napoleonite and come here. I don't hate anybody in moderation and hold no ill will against anybody there; they certainly have their goals and I'm nobody to take that away from them.

But it also just wasn't the kind of site I wanted to be a part of. Goat's way of branding it poisoned the image it had in SpaceHey, SpaceHey users became hostile and rude to Napoleonite in return, and both sides are not sides I can really pick. They're two types of evils essentially, and it's really just a debate of who is the lesser evil at this rate.

I will give a lot of credit to some specific Napoleonite users for being very open and patient with the kind of waves and people I've been seeing; some of you guys have handed this really well. Good job!

I don't know... SpaceHey is falling down the rabbit hole. Napoleonite ended up just not being the place for me, though I'm happy for all the people who have switched over in a rush, I hope you guys are having fun over there!