rpanons | Trapped in the city of one loo

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But it sucks to have your entire game dismissed as a toxic waste dump based entirely on anonymous communities when you've found the non-anon OOC atmosphere quite pleasant. But if you mention that aside from anon comms it's pretty good, you get accused of not admitting there's a problem.

I have no doubt there are problem players. Usagi and Pyra play here, ffs. I also have no doubt that it's a pretty loud minority. But, again, it takes place mostly on anon comms: perfectly ignorable spaces that aren't mandatory to game participation. Spaces that the players can do absolutely nothing about. You can say 'it's up to the players' all you want, but the fact is, no one can do anything about the content posted to anon communities. There is simply no way to track who posted them, and I'd find the community far, far more toxic if they started witch-hunting anonymous comments based on speech patterns and word usage or something like that.

It's your free time, and if you don't want to app to a game that has long anon comm threads, that's your choice, but I honestly don't see people barging into an otherwise civil "aw, the test drive is small this time" thread with "no one wants to app to a game this toxic" and then giving advice like "fix your anon threads" or "it's not our problem" to be terribly helpful. "how can we? most of them snipe anon" applies to players in game, too. We simply have no way of knowing who is posting those comments.

A game's anon comm threads do not always reflect the game itself. I'll grant that our mods are definitely watching anon comms and let them affect things, and I can see how that'd be a turn-off. But neither mod nor player can do anything about anon comms except...I dunno, passive-aggressively put the game on hiatus or refuse to tag until anon threads improve? And that'd just bring out the trolls.

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