>>82081No, it was not based on your post, which I hadn't read but have now gone back and found. Kind of cringe to assume it was, ngl, and a little bit defensive.
Jokes aside, what does "things that are cringe" even mean? Your original posts don't explain it either. Do you mean you don't do things you'll think you'll be bad at? you don't post things other people might not like or that might get negative feedback/ been seen as going against the group mentality?
You say in your earlier posts you only do important stuff, how do you quantify important? Do you only make things you think other people will find educational or informative? How do you decide that?
Please understand this is not an attack, I just do not know what you mean, you're right in that you need to be careful not to overshare online and putting out low effort stuff with no intent to improve isn't good, but it sounds like you think being interested in something isn't reason enough on its own to do anything with it, when really it's one of the best reasons to.
Especially when you intimate that it's better for people to post nothing on their sites than frivolous or low effort things, like posting nothing is less whatever than posting whatever you fancy
>Another thing, you guys really dislike that most of the webring are abandoned neocities pages, and yet promote this "post whatever" idea. This "whatever" attitude is probably why so many sites are abandoned...>>82082I think this is a good point, and it would be presumptuous of me to assume that the only reason people don't post more stuff is because they don't have the confidence to, as you say, people should only post what they feel like posting and some sites owners might feel their sites are complete and need no addition past what's there.
But I think feeling like what you are capable of making isn't good enough to show anyone is a very common reason for people not posting things. All those near empty sites with energetic openings and hand made style sheets and homepages, and they only have the safest types of pages, a uses page, a neofetch screenshot, maybe some links to other things, no meat. These people had the energy and love for this thing to learn HTML and CSS, put something online, join a community, but have nothing to say? Nothing at all?
Most people have something or other they want to talk about, maybe not a huge variety of things, maybe not in great depth, but they do want to talk about it, most have something they do that they care about, drawing or music or whatever, but lots of people can't get over the hurdle of exposing it to others, even in an environment they totally control like a personal website.
You see much more direct evidence of this in other communities where it's normal to post links to new works, often people will post one or two things, and when they get negative feedback or it doesn't get much traction they get discouraged and stop trying, or they post something which is well received, but a week or so later they're self conscious and delete it off their site.
A lot of the time the stuff they posted isn't great, but it was honest, and it deserved to be up, you can't improve without doing, and writing something is better than writing nothing.
