/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>8757900
Goddamn my half-assed editing. I meant to say "being ita or lacking basic social skills will NOT cause an application to be rejected."

>>8758524
Not Sweden.

>>8758932
At least 2 years.

>>8758676
My badly-written comment brought up a terrible idea. A "no itas" rule, whether in the initial application or just a mass culling in the current comm, would be bad for the fashion in the long term. It would prohibit or repel fresh blood from trying out lolita, meaning fewer people in the market.

Brandwhores would suffer with less potential customers for their items. And in every ita who asks people to accommodate their under-$40-budget, within them lies a future potential to become a well-dressed brandwhore when they find work and discover the wonders of disposable income.

Sure, kicking out itas may be refreshing in the short run. But it would endanger the comm's (and the fashion's) long-term prospects for survival. I remember a story on cgl about some historical reenactment or LARP comm, that decided to exclude people with subpar sewing/armor. Result: no young people joined. The remaining members slowly dropped out by moving away, starting families, or simply losing interest in the hobby. The comm dismantled.

Barring socially inept people: good idea, hard to execute! The mods have primary responsibility to crack down on bad behavior for the protection of the members. Each member also carries a small responsibility to speak up, either at the meet-killer to inform that she just did a faux pas, or to the mods. Many lolitas (including myself, to my shame) don't have the balls to do this.

The dangerous form of the meet-killer, is the missing stair. http://pervocracy.blogspot.com/2012/06/missing-stair.html

>>8758735
Doing private meets only with my friends, with occasional drop-ins for the public comm, might be what I end up doing. I have no idea if other members will think I'm elitist, but at age 30 I am slowly losing my fucks to give.