I think its just... emotional baggage drags people down. Normal compassionate people. Thats why we see african childs starving in tv, so we donate.

So sure if you empty all your emotional baggage on someone you just met in here. Its not rly fair.

But meanwhile r/needafriend is no place where you manipulate people into being attracted to your positivity so you win them over to be your friends.

If you rly “need“ someone.. this alrdy means you have some problems to talk about. People should be aware that they probably gonna met people with emotional baggage in here.

But also a lot of people in here should also see r/kindvoice and r/mentalhealthbuddies instead of looking here to relieve their stuff.

I guess most people that come here with problems are searching someone they can share the bad and the good with.

And so its not the dumbest to start out with the bad. Like “if they like me in my bad, they love me in my good“