Thread:SelenaZephyr/@comment-6493589-20150506231048/@comment-24087318-20150507042609

I'm quite serious, too. I'm tired of having to preface and postface everything I say as "It's a legitimate criticism, and a Staff member has told me those are allowed" when I want to be critical of something. I'm tired of having to fear that if I don't somebody is going to say "Selena's just being a bitch, let's Block her." when I'm raising real issues about real injustices and real matters.

I want to see this place change. I want to see the Staff start to realize the mistakes in their attitudes. I want to see these mistakes not just aknowledged, but apologized for. I want to see people here taking the first step in admitting there's a problem and a one-sided lack of respect to people they think "Are not worth it".

When you see or hear a Staff member saying something like that, tell me, how does that make you feel? To know that while they assigned position as a Staff member here, which is quite literally about serving and providing a service to a community, that their users and their issues "Do not matter" if they're not a part of the well-liked upper echelon?

It doesn't taste good in my mouth, that's for certain. And I will continue to raise this issue up and talk about it until I see people stepping up to change it.