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it's just a run of the mill shitposter. she'll get bored sooner or later if people stop engaging.

hmm. i might have been wrong, because i can't find solid info for a tornado in florida on may 9. but there was two deadly ones in oklahoma that day, so it's also possible that news is just getting overshadowed (i'm not invested enough to dig past a couple of pages on google). or it's possible that dragoncalled mod is in oklahoma, not florida, or that there was another tornado somewhere around that date that i haven't found news on. idk. the point being that, while anon above isn't wrong to ask for concrete evidence of the tornado existing, that evidence may not exist or be easy to find whether it really happened or not

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finally got off my ass and logged in.

that's fine! i've actually got my life together now so i would be willing to take over and manage a game directory again if necessary, either on my own or with a partner. for now, i'll just have to add taken/reserve links to the gdoc.

again, good luck!

anything utilized by people who don't reply to shitposter's thirsty cockhopping

Funny how when people thought shitposter was casey/suze no one gave two shits and it died, but mention kristen and suddenly folks are falling over themselves left and right to claim they don't know who she is or hdu accuse innocent people we've totally never heard of of being a shitposter

If you want to defend this person, stop whiteknighting them. Especially stop acting like Wankgate is suddenly absolutely 100% dumpster fire material all because this one random person has been brought up. It's always been a dumpster fire and it's always dragged in innocent people. ~~Welcome to the Anoncomms~~

when did whiteknighting become so terrible, anyway? god forbid a person you don't like have friends that care about them

i think that's pretty much the actual reason. people getting wanked on aren't supposed to have friends, and if they do, they're wankers too.

Institute did have some baggage, being a recycled premise that carried over characters from its previous incarnation. That always turns me away from games, a little--joining a game that probably has a pre-existing clique can be troublesome.

Then again, I Mask and Menace and Legion might make another superhero game redundant.

whiteknighting lost its meaning, really. it was originally more about people who had no idea who they were defending or what they were talking about and ended up making the person in question look even worse with their clumsy attempts at arguing.

now it's come to mean "anyone who disagrees with me, or asks for deets, or says something i don't like"

i don't want to rp with someone who's a giant wanky bitch, what excuses can i use to get her to leave me alone when she eventually throws herself at me? she's now into a few fandoms i'm big into and i have a lot of friends in these fandoms, including some mutual friends of hers

she's not a big name wanker, just a low key wanker whose wg namedrops are always full of her/her whiteknights saying "hi x, wanky/jealous much???" or "that's not true, wankybitch would never do that"

i've seen her in mutual friends' plurks being a keysmashing passive aggressive babe of the tit and i personally know some people she's pissed off, i'm not just going off wg threads

why don't you just avoid/ignore her? you don't need an excuse.

seriously, just ignore. it's not that hard.

i think we need stronger moderator and nuking certain threads from orbit at this point, not just freezing. they need to not exist. i don't mind being critical or even smack talk about shitty rper low quality whatever sometimes but we also shouldn't be allowed to have a hundred comment thread speculating the mental stability and issues of someone with not deets. the post link/initial discussion should've been left and frozen and the rest literally deleted. it's not our place to play armchair psychologist or make excuses or reasons, even if we're presented with facts like mental illness, drugs, etc.

meme wank is out of control even if i do believe in accountability and generally at least attempting to be considerate and not just ignoring everyone or dropping everything (it's still a meme). even if i have personally seen/know some "love" namedrops are from the shittiest players and honestly do deserve wank you'll notice we never get "favorites" or even "ships you're following" threads anymore in game threads and part of it is some friend goes and is so stupid they drop someone who is super shitty and ooc in with other people or literally just to shit stir and cause trolling when even if they suck we should say it and move on and praise others. i do believe in being critical and kicking disgusting people like phase, second, or mike out and not giving them small chance after chance because oh it was just ignoring preferences or ship pushing... 100 times... for years... not like they raped someone!!! or whatever but i think maybe somewhere along the line we got sick of the mikes and kayvins who we gave infinite chances to because it didn't hit a certain "standard" of inappropriate behavior when really not getting social cues ever and repeatedly ignoring requests, preferences, and playing dumb (whether it's literally that they don't have the mental abilities to understand or not doesn't matter and shouldn't give them any slack) and at a certain point we start taking it out on everyone because we're just so fucking fed up of low tier wankers we've had for years when they should be just as accountable.

i think the low tier wankers who repeat offend on small levels are maybe the biggest problems with how we act now and it's part of what opened way to wank about anything and not hold anyone accountable. just shit stalk on an anon comm, laugh, repeat. it becomes the norm rather than giving crit and holding them responsible. moderators need to step up their games too, not just in games but here and wg (again nuking shit not just freezing). and yes i know THICK SKIN about wg but it is true, you don't have time to get to know the community on a personal level and if you're talking to one friend and the only representation you really have for us as a whole is an entire community of anon aggresiveness and this one, which can be pretty much the same or just as mean-spirited somedays? it's going to leave a fucking bad impression and push people away. i'm all for not having special tumblrinas who want us to accept every headcanon about sexuality and gender and everything else fuck off and not come here, but there are perfectly reasonable people who get intimidated because it's not takign the bad with the good immediately it's taking an overwhelming amount of bad where you can't tell if and how it might affect you if you fuck up (especially when you see wank about weh someone deleted their top level on a meme and i couldn't reply to them weh icons with border or dots like on tumblr or that username has "ly" at the end in between shit like second). it is not a good first impression and honestly everyone fucking judges by first impressions. it's hard not to. i hire people for a living and guess what even if you had a hard day and you apologize and say you don't look this messy most days if the option presents itself that i can hire the person that looks pristine, has their shit together, whatever i'm gonna hire them. or i'm going to just put it off and think eventually a better candidate will come along that didn't have their cat tear up their pantyhose on the way out or get thrown up on by a toddler or have a broken printer or whatever.

the facts are that moderators i think really need to be the ones to step up their games. if it's a game mod they need to be more aggressive and really make use of their stay ic/toxicity clauses. if they do that, it makes the players at least trust them enough to convey hmd issues to them which they can convey to other players and maybe in the long run will help people start to talk to each other about those issues because they know the mods will protect them if they have ic issues and gave hmd comments, anon or otherwise. anon comms are about instant gratification but lbr if you could really make the shit player become a good ic one or they're out of the game it would be gratifying enough that bitching and moaning might not happen because it'll out you and you won't get what you want.

i just really think we need tougher modding and while i love a bit of gossip and smack talk that wg especially needs to be tougher. if something wasn't supposed to be posted to begin with, why is it frozen and still there? delete it. just because it's not an address doesn't mean it should be there. and again "oh who cares" isn't an excuse because really look at how a whole lot of nothing affected bakerstreet and we had few posts and fewer top levels for a long time even though plenty of people aren't shitty la cockhops and medium snobs we complain about. NO ONE was replying out of fear of being namedropped. so yes it does have power even if it's just lol namedrop of nothing lol. yet the mods can't even commit to their own rules about talking about meme shit (though again i don't think memes should be off limits to discuss because shitty behavior is shitty behavior and we should be held accountable for it- but shitty behavior is NOT ignoring a tag and it's not saying you don't want to tag someone, it's the same shit that is shitty in games)

man i want to scream we just need to be set on fire and rise from the ashes. the only way we can really fix our shit is to start over at this point and do things really differently.

i've seen it since at least 2010 if not earlier? i know capeandcowl had it and i remember seeing it in earlier asgard, soulcampaign, and exitvoid. probably some other games too but i couldn't date exactly when.

i have it on good authority at least one is gonsai

dunno if the mods are reading this but they should probably not close, just make some adjustments. have a poll here/there link it and have some ideas on what to change to make it more appealing and if people would want it and ask for fill in the blank replies.

the monster thing is part of it for me and unfortunately again, the people who app to "unique" games tend to be the same crowd i find boring af to play off of but i might've given it a go otherwise. small games can be successful but they have to stay open and maybe have a higher ac count? it might get some people's jimmies rustled but if they commit to staying open and make changes that are more appealing, they'll get people to stick around and survive as a smaller game. most small games with smaller ac don't last over the years BECAUSE they have small ac and everyone treats it as the place they go when bored with their main games and psls.

maybe have a higher ac for now and promise if the game takes off they'll cut it? idk.

Idk, I've never found it terrible, but it is pretty side-eye worthy when someone barges into a thread full of legitimate complaints and starts throwing their weight around about how x would NEVER do any of this, you are all liars and fools, stop bullying my precious cinnamon roll!!!

If someone is smearing your friends name around on an anon comm, I think it's better to ignore and move on. If there are no deets, the thread will die. If there are, the only thing replying to the thread will do is being more attention to it. Like most of our definitions, it has lost a lot of its meaning so yeah, anyone not replying to a namedrop screeching for more deets is met with "hi x" or accusations of white knighting, but it has definitely been a thing where friends of the wanker/non-entity made the problem SO much bigger than it was originally.

Or maybe you or they are really exaggerating. I've been in this hobby since 2006 and have only even been mentioned on WG once, in a neutral fashion. Most of the people I know have never been namedropped on WG, or if they have it was one mention that was forgotten in the next few days. And I've tagged with pretty massive wankers. Hell, I'm even friends with a few of the people WG froths about on a regular basis, so your claim that simply innocently tagging a wanker without knowing they were a wanker got your friend relentlessly wanked out of the hobby is dubious.

Chances are you either are a shitty writer (because if you want to say 'we're all shitty writers here' you must be aware of the lack of effort you put into it), or you posted logged in to defend yourself (which of course is going to make you a target), or a friend came out swinging in your defense, anon or otherwise, which made it look like a topic that could easily ruffle feathers.

God, the wailing about needing to destroy anon comms to ~save the hobby~ that comes up every time this topic is mentioned is just ridiculous.

The hobby is dwindling because fandom moved elsewhere. The only reason it still exists at all is because fandom moved to a site whose interface is absolute garbage for anything text based and would be really tough to transfer our typical game format to. Very few people sit and shake and cry about anon comms anymore and the ones who do? Are generally the people who get namedropped for legit reasons but don't want to improve their shitty behavior. Most people just continue playing as normal aside from that one meme incident.

I've RPed on sites with no anon venting spaces and they all really made me miss this one. I'd rather people get to vent anonymously than have to put up with all the crap that happens when people have nowhere to vent.

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people get mad when the target of their hate has friends who want to defend them, mostly

that said i don't like when my friends try to whiteknight me because drama dies faster if it gets ignored. like i appreciate the concern and all but id rather it just went away

tbh sometimes i find wg to be less bad than rpa. there is a lot of trolling and stupid shit, but the mods are really on top of freezing threads that devolve into pointless rage, and if people namedrop someone they need to give deets or people ignore it. in the past it was pretty brutal and people got namedropped for everything, but with the new rules it's lightened up.

rpa, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have a lot of mod intervention. i rarely see threads frozen, even when they're reported and clearly exploding into petty drama, or about tumblr bullshit. there's a lot of chill people but also a lot of pointless drama and i don't see it addressed much by the mods.

Whiteknighting used to be for things like the people who defended Ken until they learned what the wank was about, or for people who argue that there's just NO WAY their friend could have done that because they say so. But it's been misapplied so much it doesn't mean anything anymore.

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