Can People Just Stop Being Creepy and Hostile

@Red - Absolutely, a lot of work needs doing. And believe me I would LOVE to expose these creepers myself but as good as it would be, it's probably not a good idea - that stuff is best dealt with behind the scenes. And yes that thread would be great! I wish threads could be pinned because Muffin did an amazing job on that one like the boss she is. @Beherit - I do believe the dating angle works, I've had some success myself here and there but it's clear the community treats the dating aspect as a secondary goal, it might be best for the site to reflect that as a whole. And don't worry there are times where I disappear from the site for like a month or two; I love MO but I totally understand the need for a vacation from here at times.

It bothers me knowing about it too, but it's though landing with a real solution. I'm sure the best ideas would involve changing/updating the site itself, but those updates will take ages at this rate.

The problem is the amount of bad lurkers is insane, and sadly the majority of people that gravitate towards an anime 'dating' site are not normally pleasant people. Hate the do it but there is a stereotype for a reason. The people who are active and post on the forums who don't treat this solely as a dating site tend to be more pleasant to talk to. So I'm for reworking the site to an anime social site rather than dating, but I don't think that will happen. Literally anyone could make a female account and it'd be a completely different experience to being male on this site. It's quite disgusting.

I feel that this site needs to have at least people that are 18 or above because there is a lot of people that are either very young or very old. I can understand that and respect that but it seems like there are too many immature people that come here and then become hostile like threatening others for no apparent reason just because they like other things that they don't like. It seriously crazy.

I would say something but it's pretty much all been said already. I'm just glad that a thread like this has now been created.

@Trashcan Kid - I'm sure there have been threads like this before on here but I'm glad we can all create some more awareness for this sort of thing. A lot of nice people get pushed away because of arseholes.