Reply To: KTCRIM – Keep the CR Interesting Movement

You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. AA Milne

This isn’t a call for interesting topics or discussion. There’s plenty.

This is, I hope, the official launch of the Amateur Dramatics Ban.

It seems that many threads, and particularly the most promising, interesting, ones, often turn into an amateur dramatics class. And the reason I specifically say ‘amateur’ dramatics is because that is exactly what they are. Amateur. They are not genuine emotional discussions. It is people claiming offence indiscriminately, at the slightest, or indeed without any, provocation. Anything other than fawning agreement is a slight against one’s personality.

Generally, each post seems engineered to engender as much drama as possible. It’s all about tension and attention. Unfortunately, to name examples would be to point fingers, and to point fingers would be to create more arguments and useless drama.

The end result is every discussion is not about the topic but about the interpersonal disagreements of the participants. And frankly, it’s incoherent and tiring. I am aware that in attacking it and bringing it up, I’m guilty of it too. So let’s just please try and keep the amateur dramatics to a minimum. That way, when somebody is actually offensive and mean, it won’t be the boy who cried wolf.

#KTCRIM #amdramban