I have to get this out there and say that Nintendolife is a much better community than the Nintendo community on Reddit. Goodness gracious I never met a group of people so biased and forgiving of all of Nintendo's flaws. The toxicity levels are sky high on r/nintendoswitch that I just can't deal with it anymore. Nintendolife's community is so much more mature audience compared to Reddit willing to engage in a creative discussion.
I just wanted to thank everyone here for providing such a wonderful environment for creative discussions and the civil language across the board. Much love to all you guys, never going back to that sub ever again lol!
@Eel@Joeynator3000 In my title I was referring to leaving this site then coming back lol but I understand what you mean! I know this site has it's issues, but it's much more wholesome than r/nintendoswitch here. People seem to genuinely care about Nintendo, and it's less toxic from my experience.
I love this site. It's the only site i belong to btw so its not like I have alot to compare to 😋. In all seriousness, most of everyone here are good apples. There's only a small amount of bad ones, but they never seem to stick around long enough.
@Chunkboi79 From my personal experience with gaming forums, I find myself looking at this forum a few times a week. This place is much nicer and friendlier than the previous gaming forums I've been to.
@Ralizah I have to agree with this. The bigger forums I've been to, I use to get bullied over playing video games I like. The old forum I went to years ago, people mostly got mad because I played games, and formed my opinion over that, rather than going with what game critics were saying. Smaller communities are just friendlier.
I actually stopped going to the gaming subreddit, mostly because it feels like everyone has to think the same way. I want to play games, enjoy them, maybe talk about them.
@NotTelevision Mod too much and you wind up with a totalitarian hellhole like ResetEra where the aggressively leftist mods can and will ban you for having unpopular opinions. Mod too little, and you get GameFAQs with its feeble, mostly non-existent mods allowing the site's large userbase to deal with armies of obnoxious alt-right trolls.
I'm mostly happy with the mods here as well. I know I won't get modded unless I really step out of line, and that's relaxing.
Size is definitely a crucial factor. I think it’s fair to call the group of people who frequent this forum ‘a community’, whereas with larger groups of users, you step into the territory of ‘the fandom’. The fact that former can be prefixed with the indefinite article while the latter requires the definite article says quite a lot. Communities and many and various, whereas ‘the fandom’ is one enormous monolith and is this less receptive to differing view points.
I think there are sufficiently few of us here that it’s easier to view each other as individuals rather than a mass of raging noise, and there’s enough space between posts to actually listen and think. Oversized and overpaced social spaces tend to divulge pretty rapidly into mud-slinging and users are reduced to pawns in the wider ongoing war. If war were to break out here, I think there would be sufficiently little at stake to really bother putting a whole lot of effort into furthering it.
The comment sections however, are a slightly different story. Not only is the user base bigger, but controversy is courted a little more actively. We’re pretty much left to our own devices here in the forums, and few people seem to be bothered to pick fights when there’s little impetus to begin with.
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Topic: Left r/nintendoswitch for Nintendolife
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