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I've always defended everyone's right to express their opinions and judgments. Calling other commenters "haters" if they don't share your opinion basically means stepping on others freedom of speech. It's a red flag to me.  Currently people feel they have to defend a critical opinion by a disclaimer "I'm not a hater but.." If only one view is acceptable means there's no point in writing comments. 

I used to leave my opinions on mostly everything I'd be currently watching, to add to the range of views. Someone might share my tastes. Then that comment could be helpful to someone, now or  years later, when they try to decide which dramas to select. 

There's no point writing comments anymore. Any and all criticism will be countered by personal attacks.

Personally I block all rudies. User warfare has gotten out of hand in MDL. There is too much unhinged toxicity. Spewing insults and compiling *hate lists* of users (deemed to be wrongthinkers) have now become a thing among fandoms. This is definitely nauseating to me and I'll be most likely to avoid dramas with obsessive fandoms altogether.

MDL is currently just another celebrity gossip and cyberbullying site. 

It used to be all about dramas when I first joined. In the past I enjoyed discussing ongoing dramas with other users but all of this is now lost (March 2025).

I used to be very vocal about the consequences of publishing celebrity gossip in MDL. I feel that the actors who bring us so much joy should be able to enjoy their private lives without paparazzis hunting them and  watching their every step. Baseless rumours and gossip which later turned out to be false have already taken many lives and careers. I'm not a fan of anybody and I don't need to know about actors private lives.  The very existence celebrity gossip and making money on it is a predatory practice and makes us all less human humans.

About me:

Memories of the Alhambra was my first k-drama.  In 2024, I found some absolutely amazing C-dramas which have now turned me into watching mainly C-dramas. These are: To The Wonder, Meet Yourself, Escape From the Trilateral Slopes. 

2025: The Embers!!!! I've never been this invested in a drama and I've seen a few!!

After having watched 700+ k-and c-dramas, I don't have any genre preferences anymore.

My ratings:

• 10 rare masterpiece, amongst the best dramas ever made!
• 9-9.5 fantastic, gem, but not perfect
• 8.5 really good and a recommendation to watch
• 8  enjoyable enough, but only for one-time watching
• 7-7.5 still better and more worthwhile than non-k-drama
• 4-6 dramas that I struggled to finish or dropped.

Go Jun (in Save Me, one of the very best k-dramas) 

I love watching Behind the scenes and Making of clips. Ok Taecyeon fighting ghost in Bring It On Ghost

I really like: KBS drama specials. They're like small indie films, often. With k-drama qualities but more free and experimental than box office hit movies.  Park Sung Woong is in 2 of them  (Butcher Barber, Strange Cohabitation).  

Bye!

Epilogue:  I mainly do not to like k-pop at all. But I like ATEEZ (and the World EPs to be precise) ! I also like BewhY.