(01-28-2015, 02:52 PM)Graeham Ridgefield Wrote:(01-28-2015, 02:50 PM)Warren Castille Wrote:(01-28-2015, 02:48 PM)Graeham Ridgefield Wrote: On a side note, critique is a thing. You don't necessarily have to like it but not everybody is going to bend over backwards to lace their words with sugar. What matters is whether or not they back up their words with more than just sniping and ranting.
We're all wired differently and a healthy community is made up of lots of different people. I don't think there's much need to try and 'baby' people for being more blunt than others unless they're specifically breaking an established rule.
Three different words in play here, though. "Critiquing" is not "sniping" and calling that out is not "babying." You can be plenty cross with people without being a jerk about it. Hell, that's kind of my whole MO. Are they awful roleplayers? Of course. Is it anyone's job to point that out? No, the red flags should stand for themselves.
Openly hoping people can't roll alts is hostility, not "being more blunt than others."
...and for all we know the post could have been written partly in jest. For all the talk of not judging others I just find it strange that that is exactly what's happening. Even if it isn't written in jest then there's obviously a reason as to why the guy feels so strongly about Au Ra.
It's not a great thing to wish on the realm but I can certainly see where's he's coming from.
Not everyone has been saying to be judgement free. My point has been that it's incredibly silly to hold anyone to the lore when the lore is outright dumb in a lot of ways. It's poorly constructed, because the purpose of things like culture is most often flavor, and it doesn't make sense to expect an entire species to stick to one culture like they're some sort of hive mind.
But it's my opinion that disagreeing with people and stating that you think there is a better way to do things, and advising to do that, is part of being a community. Yes, it means that some arguments will never have an end, but you know. Anyone can have whatever opinion they want -- but just don't be surprised when someone disagrees with it (or judges you for it, for that matter. Part of being people). Hell, I expect people to disagree with me a lot of the time (I'm more often surprised when they don't). Isn't going to stop me from potentially saying that I think they are capital w Wrong, and isn't going to stop them from saying the same thing to me.
edit- my point, because I keep losing it: criticism of any opinion is gonna happen, and it should. It fosters discussion. Yes that means sometimes it will get circular. Mods are here to keep things from getting out of hand, let them do their job and leave the rest up to discussion.
