/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>8208653

Ah, a miscommunication, then.

A lot of lolitas already call them rules, not guidelines, so I don't know how you'd go about changing that. Making a post on cgl is certainly not the way, especially when you're getting yourself into miscommunication problems instead of highlighting what you actually want to say. A few lolitas used to go around making macros about "the rules are more like guidelines" back in the day, that's a better response than starting a passing argument on 4chan which will get deleted once the thread is old enough.

As for the rest. The first lolita handbook (circa 2006) was written after most of the shenanigans I mentioned already happened, so the handbook did not cause them. You could say the handbook itself was a reaction to all the dumb things egl got inundated with back in the day.

In fact, after the handbook was written we got a lot less "really dumb things" for a while, until everyone started shifting onto facebook/tumblr. Around when livejournal allowed facebook users to post on egl is when we started to get really dumb newbie questions again.

Look at it this way, if newbies now want to get into the fashion, there is a set of rules we can point them to. Ignorance is no longer an excuse, the handbook being outdated is no longer an excuse, and we no longer get lolitas hating on the innocent ones who just didn't know how to get started. Anybody who starts out by deliberately breaking the rules for the sake of thumbing their noses at "the lolita elite" is basically picking a fight, let them have the fight they want or whatever. It's not our job to save them from wanting to fight something that doesn't exist.