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>but the culture (especially early on) was exceptionally protectionist and lots of people got bullied off for very silly reasons.

Had no idea that was happening. What makes your say that?





I was there in the early days, loads of folk joined and their first posts got replies like

   * stop posting photos without a text description
   * stop posting like that without a CW
   * don't spell your hashtags that way
Because you couldn't see replies from other servers, they'd get quite a few of these.



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