People love spectacle and drama. It's way more enticing than reading random story posts from characters you don't care about or you haven't RP'd with.
The vast majority of posts on the IC forum get views in the low hundreds, while this topic has 5k as of this post.
Look in the mirror if you want to know why aggression is popular here.
Also this:
Unless it brings up personal OOC details or is outright hateful I think posts shouldn't be scrubbed. Especially considering what's scrubbed is never consistent. Mods shouldn't be nannies, but they are here. If people want to post in a way that gets them a bad rep (myself included), let them.
It's a minor gripe that I don't see changing any time soon, and maybe I'm wrong about how things should be. However I believe the site is overall a good thing, else I wouldn't have donated.
The vast majority of posts on the IC forum get views in the low hundreds, while this topic has 5k as of this post.
Look in the mirror if you want to know why aggression is popular here.
Also this:
(04-22-2015, 06:08 PM)ArmachiA Wrote: However, I feel like when mods edit post to uh... sound nicer? it sort of scrubs that responsibility, like they can say whatever in the moment because a Mod will come and clean it up later no biggie.
Unless it brings up personal OOC details or is outright hateful I think posts shouldn't be scrubbed. Especially considering what's scrubbed is never consistent. Mods shouldn't be nannies, but they are here. If people want to post in a way that gets them a bad rep (myself included), let them.
It's a minor gripe that I don't see changing any time soon, and maybe I'm wrong about how things should be. However I believe the site is overall a good thing, else I wouldn't have donated.
