Okay, it is early morning here, the whole house is asleep and I have nothing else to do so I shall start. š
What I love about this forum is
1) its unity (touchwood). I love the fact that there are no major fan groups between the two leads. I see and hear about so many other forums that have so much inside fighting going on because there is so much division between the fans of the lead actors.
2) I love the forum for the enriching place it is : the wonderful Vm makers and the other creative members, the wonderful analysts, the wonderful poem writers, the fiction writers, the wonderful members with an amazing sense of humor...it keeps us from killing ourselves during the live updates. LOL I also love our special brand of members who are always striving to get our forum on the 1st spot. They work tirelessly to reach this goal. I didn't care about these things before but when our forum moves up a rank I feel so proud for all those girls who work so hard for it to happen (and makes me a feel a little guilty for not doing much...LOL) and of course our wonderful set of MODS...
3) I love that this is a forum which clearly knows that when we criticize Yash or Aarti it is the characters that we are criticizing and not the actors who are playing these characters.
4) Touchwood but I love the fact that how nothing can provoke us. I have seen quite a few people in the recent past trying to butt into our forum and make comments so as to divide the forum but nothing fazes our members. And it is quite endearing to see that
5) I love that for the most part people don't try to impose their views on others. We say it once or twice and if we think the other person is having a hard time understanding our view point, we let it go.
What I dislike about this forum...
Well, nothing right now. But in the initial days it was a nightmare and I had almost quit coming to this forum. I absolutely detest fan wars. It makes the actors look bad and it makes the people who indulge in these kind of wars look bad not to mention it makes the forum such a vitriolic place to be in. I hope our forum never ever goes back to that.
Final thoughts: I am quite proud of the fact that this forum is one of the most peaceful forum on IF and we are one of the top forums by actually discussing about the story and the characters and the actors and not because of fan wars and fights. š And a lot of credit goes to the writers of the show too because it is them who has created these two beautiful characters who are so flawed. They don't glorify any one character and make the other look bad. They both have flaws that drive us crazy but at the same time make us want to hug them and tell them it is okay everything will get better. ššš
Edited by angake - 12 years ago