- cross-posted to:
- animemes@ani.social
- cross-posted to:
- animemes@ani.social
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Ain’t that some shit, right? People say like “try playing multiplayer games, you love gaming!” Yeah except gaming spaces are like, often particularly hostile and unwelcoming?
The most lifelike part of VRchat is the social anxiety
I can’t play it sober.
I just have zero social skills and being online isn’t helping that.
I can strike up a conversation with most strangers in real life pretty easily.
But online? There’s almost zero context. Even something as simple as the weather makes a load of difference for the small talk that can develop into richer conversations later.
Online social anxiety, especially forums like this one where you get a grade (the upvote/downvote), is very understandable.
Do you think hiding the upvote/downvote numbers would help?
That’s a good question. I don’t know.
Just speculating, the upvote/downvote does help a user know what is expected behavior and some understanding to build from.
It also provides a rich incentive to post because “number go up” feels good.
I’d love to know YouTube’s data on hiding the dislike button. It wasn’t great for viewers, but it may have had an effect on creator satisfaction. But I don’t know for sure.
Kind of weird how that works - no problems posting stupid shit online, but that hesitation to start a new game such as online chess because what if the social interaction…
It took me months of playing lichess alone to work up the courage to play it online. Now, years later, I’m able to sometimes send messages during games
I can’t look people in the eyes in Minecraft
At least you’ll never aggro endermen
when i used to play games that required coop to get certain items id often sit for long whiles hovering over the search for teammates button, online social anxiety is real shit. nowadays its better but i still cant do mh coop in fear of being too bad
Same
