Really Bulbapedia? + My Pet Peeve with AmourShippers

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I don't delete anything unless it violates the rules.

Tbh, when we first made it like, 5 years ago we made it in mind as a platform for all shippers to use, except the difference between it and serebii would be that the other shippers could also talk about their viewpoints on Pearlshipping from the stance of being another shipper. We wanted genuinely meaningful conversations and civil debate. Which is easily reinforceable, I think. We decided to make our censorship less strict than serebii. I don't know if it's the same now but when I used it the rules very much advocated praise and neutral discussion only.

I mean, this was me and my friend's first online social experience (like, other than facebook and that) so I guess the PR didn't work to get other shippers in, which is why you get what you see now. I'm guessing you might offer a suggestion or something for this, and you're free to do so but I won't be able to input much effort I'm afraid, I'm too busy with university.

I do have one issue with your comment though. And that's just my opinion, not forum protocol or anything. You said "I've never seen anyone in this forum praise Serena". That would be just cause there aren't any active Serena fans here. You could invite some to even it out, as per me and my friend's original vision for this forum. One recurring thing I get annoyed at in the Pokémon community (and one of the reasons why I'm not that active tbh) is that people seem to think it's the obligation of everyone to like everything. No one here has to praise Serena if they don't like her. She's a fictional character who doesn't exist. The expectation that everyone HAS to like her or say something nice about her is what, thought dictatorship? It's stupid. You see it time and time again in the community. "you have to like amourshipping it's the most canon". Yeah, it is. But I don't have to change my preference based on that.

I've always thought that criticism with reasoning to back it up is fine. It's healthy to express your views that way. And she's just a fictional character. People often offer the statement "People get attached to fictional characters you'll hurt their feelings." Well guess what, it's just a bit of criticism and people need to sort out their priorities. It's not like I'm criticising how some orphaned children are dealing with the death of their parents.

Like I said, if there's an issue with no one praising Serena here, you could invite Amourshippers to join the conversation. And I mean this most respectfully. The expectation for everyone to say something nice about Serena has gone far enough and I hope you'll consider my viewpoint. I think we could get along.

Imma just say one thing, although you HAVE the right to an opinion, this is a PEARLSHIPPING vault. It is natural that if you bash on what the people in the forum go to this forum for, you are natural to get backlash. If you are sick of being bashed, go to the Amourshipping forum, that way, you and the others can hang out there. 


Let us ship our ships and you ship yours. So much for minding your own business.