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AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly, I've been in LJ/DWRP since 2010 and if I've ever been mentioned there, it sure hasn't hurt my ability to RP one bit and I've done some pretty dumb/embarrassing stuff in my RP career. Same with my friends. The few people I know have been brought up deserved to have their bad behavior brought to light because they were treating people badly and either trying to cover it up or justify it.

Unless you're being an absolute shitheel, I can guarantee the majority of people don't care.

da

[(Anonymous)]

and i can guarantee you from personal experience that it has an impact for people who aren't absolute shitheels.

almost like individual anecdotes don't matter, and what matters is measurable results, and if that many people (and i seriously challenge you to say everyone who dislikes wankgate deserved to be harassed in some way) say "wankgate has made my rp experience on dreamwidth worse" maybe it doesn't matter what you personally went through, or if even a majority don't care. it doesn't need to exist.

Re: da

[(Anonymous)]

okay but how do we know that the people who are saying that aren't in fact the guilty parties? i know people who would claim that wankgate made their rp experience worse except they were 100% the ones at fault and deserved what they brought on themselves.

-9000

[(Anonymous)]

this is garbage speculation. if that sincerely makes you feel better, that wg is karma or whatever, do what you will, but you don't have the moral high ground here.

it has hurt people. people have gotten wanked on for a litany of reasons that, most of the time, boil down to pissing off/annoying the wrong person. you don't get to decide it hasn't. many people who were harmless have left. many won't ever touch us. the community is too vitriolic and judgmental.

dwrp culture has absolutely evolved from airing petty annoyances to using "i don't like this person" for ban campaigns that follow people. beyond 1-2 recent instances, we don't have many high tier wankers anymore. it boils down to people not liking each other and the inability to be a fucking adult about it.

this sucks and this attitude sucks.

+.5 and -.5

[(Anonymous)]

i agree with most of the complaints you guys have about wankgate, but i'm going to be honest that i think it's the least effective and the least terrible it's ever been right now.

seriously, think about it. when is the last time you saw a wankgate post in which people just picked out random players and shat on their characterization? cockhopping, yaoihounding, OOC - no one cares anymore. picking on people for petty things used to be routine. that was the point. now, if you start wank for something like that, it'll turn into meta-wank about how you are shit for caring about petty things.

and think of all the names that come up on wg again and again that have been coming up for actual years. how many are even banned in many places, let alone completely run out? hell, how many of them are really ostracized or even have trouble getting tags? i can think offhandedly of at least five people whose names come up all the time on wg or have for years and who have deep cr in games, are threading actively with many ships, and plenty of friends.

following people around with deets, as some wg-ers want to do (or "deets," I guess) is not stirring up much of anything. a new game opened and people didn't get pre-banned despite much sound and fury.

so, it sucks, sure. and i do agree, "just get over it" is kind of edgelordy. but it's also a bunch of hot air. the fact that most comm posts turn into how useless the comm is should tell you plenty.