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The condescending attitude behind "Old Folks' Home"
From the "TVTropes Forum" article:
"The old farts sitting around on the porch talking while the kids play tag and chase the dog and have squirt gun fights in the yard (YF and most of the media threads). If the kids want to come over and join the conversation, the adults won't chase them away, but they are expected to be calm and behave."
Guh. I can understand that Yack Fest is not the most mature place, but there's no need to outright infantilize a group of 16-30 year olds just because they like memes.
More generally, there is a lot of this among the moderation. To an extent, this sort of feeling is probably inevitable when there's such a huge age gap between administration and userbase, though the lack of reflexivity about it compounds the problem. But it keeps getting expressed in such an ugly way. In particular, pretty much everything blackcat says is like this (no, the "adult" thing to do is to follow your own advice and take the time to understand the issue and why it bothers people). I don't think it counts as maturity if you're using your age as a bludgeon.
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And yes, I do think that paragraph is condescending. No, we are not "playing tag and chasing the dog and having squirt gun fights in the yard". I have no problem with any of those things; they sound like a lot of fun. But that's not all that we're doing.
Also, blackcat generally has a sliver of superiority complex in her posts so, whatever.
And that was one thread.
Who would have thought they were created by the same Moe Characters Unit?
"And "Fapping to Kyonko makes you gay"."
Damnit, I was trying to forget about that one.