(03-27-2015, 02:15 PM)Edda Wrote: Dangerous in the sense that it can lead to misunderstandings, feeling personally attacked/ignored, anger, animosity, deliberate exclusion, hurt feelings, and frustration. I can't speak for anyone about such results, but I imagine this to be the case here. The severity of what happens to such players is entirely dependent on the situation, how sensitive they are, and how much they rely on RP for whatever social/emotional reasons they may have.
I think it's the latter part of your statement that makes it concerning. It's definitely the case that a number of players are using RP as a kind of social support structure to greater or lesser degrees. If that's the case, then breaking into RP becomes critical. If that weren't the case, these would be petty inconveniences at best.
The problem is the impossibility of addressing that in a fragmented, largely decentralized community, in which creating an organized support structure to help such players is rife with its own problems, e.g. the discussion in the RPC and You thread about the possibility of organized Welcoming Committees and the Mentorship Program. Raising awareness and recognizing behavior can only go so far without either a paradigmatic shift in RP culture on a given server or something resembling a policy decision.
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