(02-22-2015, 08:25 PM)Graeham Ridgefield Wrote: This is the first MMO community I've been a part of that's had such an erratic and bizarre allergy to any and all critique, critical thinking and passionate discussion. I know a lot of role-players who have given up on this site entirely because of the borderline bullying and antagonistic behaviour they've been met with as a result of trying to stir up a debate instead of treating this place like the echo chamber posters seem to want it to become.I think it comes from a lot of RPers not wanting to be told their RP is "wrong", even if the established lore and the community at large tells them they are. It doesn't help when there are people encouraging them to ignore any sort of criticism.
Then there's the ridiculous habit of people deliberately reading every post that they disagree with in the worst possible light to try and paint them as being needlessly aggressive. It needs to stop, especially since the people guilty of that are, quite laughably, the same individuals who desperately claim that the best way to solve any issue is to talk it out beforehand.Â
So in short? I'm glad this thread has been made. More people within this community really need to be able to agree to disagree and participate in debates without attacking each other over differences in opinion.
One thing I would push, with all due respect, would be for the moderators to consider avoiding locking threads and just deal with the problematic posters who repeatedly derail controversial debates instead.
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