(02-22-2015, 07:25 PM)Flashhelix Wrote:(02-22-2015, 07:21 PM)hauntmedoitagain Wrote:(02-22-2015, 05:59 PM)Flashhelix Wrote: How does it shut everything else out? It's textual communication. Everybody's posts and responses can be seen regardless of what's being discussed. If Guy A and Guy B are calling eachother mean names over the LS, it's not like I can't see Guy C's replies, or that my conversation with Guy C about bread is somehow negatively affected by Guy A and Guy B's spat.
Because negative attitudes have this tendency to overpower everything else in the room, textual or no. It's also incredibly difficult to follow more than one conversation in something like an LS due to the lack of line-by-line color segregation.
Maybe you've never been in this situation before, but trust me, this is exactly how it happens and it's not a good thing in the slightest.
I've been in this situation countless times and could still carry on a conversation just fine. An argument only turns into some big thing that engulfs the entire chat when people who aren't participating in said discussion cause a big stink about not wanting it to happen. I suppose I just lucked out and none of those arguments were strong enough to 'overpower' my unrelated conversation.
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can we leave the personal finger pointing to private please? that is what turns a debate into a shitstorm.
that being said, I am all for debate. And a debate should never /ever/ have the words 'you shouldn't RP like this'. That is a closed statement, that states that it is ironclad. instead, a better way of presenting it would be 'This is what the lore states, this is what I have extrapolated from this, and this is how I think it applies.' that is how a debate starts, and should continue. when you start getting into personal attacks, is when it starts getting negative and should either be removed to a private channel, or simply dropped and people should just agree to disagree.
That said, if I am debating something in a LS, if no one says anything, then I will assume they either don't have an opinion on the matter, or simply don't care, not that they find it uncomfortable.
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