Criticism against OWOT: Difference between revisions

On August 23rd, 2025, [[lime.owot]] released [https://ourworldoftext.com/lime.owot/i_hate_owot /lime.owot/i_hate_owot] in order to protest the rampancy of spam and griefing on the OWOT [[/|Mainpage]].  

This world is the dark reprise of an earlier page named  [https://ourworldoftext.com/lime.owot/i_like_owot /lime.owot/i_like_owot], in which lime expresses all the ways he enjoys the site.

The contents of /i_hate_owot are as follows:<blockquote>"''Hi, it's been a while and i'm kinda tired.''

''I've been through a lot this year, and i'm not feeling the best. All i really want to say here is: I wish things were going better.''

''On the 2nd of february 2025, I moved lime.radio out of spawn from lack of motivation to continuously restore its surrounding structures. After that I had little reason to go back to frontpage. My mental state was crippling and having my art destroyed time and time again would have only made it worse. But back then i thought it would end soon.''

''I was wrong''

''These past few months, you may have noticed the site's main operator, fp, has started to become more and more inactive. And with this, the people who could do harm started doing more harm and more harm. Roads started to become unrecognisable until 30 coordinates out. Even the railway that used to be restored for nearly a year stopped, and the rest of the art above it was destroyed too.''

''Some days, landmarks like [[Pika City]] or Plotsville would bectargeted and unrestored for days. And after that, it seems like nobody wants to be on the front page anymore.''

''It's like it became uninhabitable. Because it basically is.''

''A year ago, you could log into owot's front page and expect to see some beautiful landscaping half the time.''  

''That's gone now.''

''Gone were the days, where you could stumble upon someone on frontpage canvas and have a meaningful conversation with them, gone were the days, where you could see stick people fighting with guns and energy beams and sneaking around structures, gone were the days, where you could go north and not stumble upon an area overridden with spam within the first 10 coordinates. OWOT used to be so much more engaging and that's gone now.''

''Nowadays I feel like I'm a spectator of a dead canvas, helpless and unable to improve the situation. And I tried, and Im trying, but I can only work for so many days in a row before i become exhausted.''

''I don't know how much longer owot will survive, but I don't have much hope. Maybe this site's 8th anniversary will be its last before the 9th becomes a memorial instead of a celebration.''

''The best I can do is hope that the people that can do something about this start taking action. and I'm worried that won't be soon.''"</blockquote>The world was advertised in the [[OWOT Discord]], where it received 12 :fire: reactions from various users.