Well there are a share of people who just do not like being in linkshells but they end up in them anyways. I've seen people leave linkshells over incredibly little. As for misunderstanding a debate as being an argument, I see that all the time. I think that the internet should have a debate font and a sarcasm font added in everywhere. Often the moment someone says they do not acknowledge something volatile saay.. Fantasia, whitemages/blackmages, etc in their RP is where sometimes things blow up because other people take it as them looking down on their RP, which is not a nice feeling granted, but actually it's more an expression of style/preference and not necessarily a statement of how everyone else's RP sucks (Though the latter can occur because people)
When people talk lore things can get geeky/nerdy real fast, and that can sometimes be annoying to watch, but honestly unless the people talking are entirely ignoring people contributing to the debate, or it gets too passive-aggressive hostile, then I personally wouldn't ask someone to take it to private - unless the linkshells rules specifically stated that the purpose isn't do discuss lore or whatever have you that might lead people to paragraph-chat.Â
If it's blocking all other communication I would maybe suggest it, but I find that the whole "no one else can get a word in" is mainly just because people go silent when something like that goes on. I've not seen a debate yet where the chat scrolled so fast others couldn't talk also, that only really happens at big RP events.Â
I find discussion of lore to be a part of the RP world as a whole so, it only seems natural that such might occur in a linkshell. I wouldn't ever discuss it in shout chat for example.. Because it's then not relevant to a whole lot of other people. Where as in an rp linkshell it's more on topic if you would.
If people do not want to see big hunks of OOC text, they can always make a tab that filters the linkshell out, or temporarily filter it out of whatever tab they're using. It's an easy fix. Even for FC chat you can do that.Â
*puts two gil in a hat*
When people talk lore things can get geeky/nerdy real fast, and that can sometimes be annoying to watch, but honestly unless the people talking are entirely ignoring people contributing to the debate, or it gets too passive-aggressive hostile, then I personally wouldn't ask someone to take it to private - unless the linkshells rules specifically stated that the purpose isn't do discuss lore or whatever have you that might lead people to paragraph-chat.Â
If it's blocking all other communication I would maybe suggest it, but I find that the whole "no one else can get a word in" is mainly just because people go silent when something like that goes on. I've not seen a debate yet where the chat scrolled so fast others couldn't talk also, that only really happens at big RP events.Â
I find discussion of lore to be a part of the RP world as a whole so, it only seems natural that such might occur in a linkshell. I wouldn't ever discuss it in shout chat for example.. Because it's then not relevant to a whole lot of other people. Where as in an rp linkshell it's more on topic if you would.
If people do not want to see big hunks of OOC text, they can always make a tab that filters the linkshell out, or temporarily filter it out of whatever tab they're using. It's an easy fix. Even for FC chat you can do that.Â
*puts two gil in a hat*
