(12-20-2014, 09:36 AM)Nebbs Wrote: So we try to be inclusive and tolerant but in the end this is a community with diverse views .. try and find that middle ground please.
I find this entire statement to be laughable. Â When someone makes a comment about not liking the way a particular race is portrayed, they're suddenly 'racist' versus that race (a non-issue considering it is a fantasy race in a game and not a legitimate race in the actual world and the last I checked, people are permitted to like or dislike any player-race they so see fit), and attacked with a mob mentality by the players in the LS. Â Despite the leader on at the time supposedly not agreeing with the individuals doing the attacking, they were justified.Â
After an argument that occurred with my husband, and not myself, I logged out still in the LS, and logged back in to find myself kicked from the linkshell without cause or provocation. I did not speak up in defense of my husband except to state that the types of players we encountered were of a type we weren't fond of, and that had created the bias that he displayed. I was laughed at and told to stop playing in the Quicksand.  I said nothing myself of the bias, save that I wasn't fond of it, and was disgusted, as another player also expressed, at the behavior of some of those in the LS. I mentioned in private conversation to Ilwe that I stayed in LS and contributed only occasionally because that was when I felt like chiming in, and that I could do so and actually contribute to the conversation. Â
After this, I wouldn't plan to return to the linkshell even if invited, nor do I recommend anyone else join. Â As stated in this post, you can get all announcements from the forum itself, and the group tends to adopt a mob mentality more than they do finding a middle ground. Â
And here I had hoped my first post on the forum would be much more positive. Â I will say, I also thought I would be asked to leave, not simply kicked when I was offline, and had no chance to ask why, or be told why I was being removed.
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