(05-15-2015, 02:47 PM)Desu Nee Wrote:Quote: Wrote:I understand all the rules of the legit talk thread, and will obey them. If I am found to have broken any of the rules, I will refrain from posting in the thread for a week. I understand that the purpose of this thread is to try and maintain discussion in good faith
I've said that once before, but I'm really not a person of writing long, exhaustive walls of text because I'm a really strong believer that a short, well intentioned text is better than a massive venting wall, which is more to vent the writers frustration that truly putting their point on an objective view. I post images, or "memes" a lot not because I want to derail, or to "hugbox", but because I feel people here come to have fun, enjoy themselves, set RP dates and forum rps, discuss lore and what's not. RPC is an instrument.
So I'm gonna be short with it. The problem isn't in the "hugboxes" or the "close admin acting" This is not a wild-west, and as I said, some people here are looking for fun, and to set rp, not to be sniped or passively agressively shot. Not throwing names, but I believe that, as Natalie said, the agressiveness was always here, but some events behind the curtains, as well as the expansion coming, coupled with the recent discussions going to the gutter gave a spike we're all noticing, and flailing around, and repeatly mentioning this. We got it, but this is personal issue of some users, which doesn't go into Admin's role, they're not psychiatrists, and we can't really say names because it's against the rules and what's not.
In short, talking about this constantly won't solve the issue. The persons who does this a lot need to be adressed.
I don't know though, I'm not a psychologist.
So how do you think these people should be identified and addressed? I tend to agree, that there can be the tendency to use controversial topics as venues to push personal agendas, or a way to get attention.
However I'm not sure how this can be discouraged. I don't think the current rules help this situation (I think they promote it in some respects). How do we encourage people in controversial threads to argue in good faith, and not just try and score e-points?
