(05-21-2017, 04:14 PM)Oswin Wrote: I take offense to this. To say that the player exclusion, stalkers and cliques are mythical is wholly uncalled for. There are many people that have experienced such behavior and to outright dismiss them is unacceptable. It could be in the minority of the experiences, but there are experiences that happen on a daily occurrence.
My apologies if anything caused offense. The vague allegations about player exclusion, stalkers, and rampant cliques do exist (so they are not purely mythical), but are greatly exaggerated, will exist on /any/ community, and make up a tiny, minute fraction of the server. I suppose it's possible if you have a tiny 20-40 RP FC on a small server that homogenizes all content that you could greatly reduce these elements, but they will still likely exist.
Again, it's unfortunate if someone feels so bad that they feel that leaving the community is the only answer, especially considering that the community is enormous, the blacklist function exists, and the fact that this is the internet - where no one is going to punch you from across the screen.
You could attribute these type of complaints to any RP server (or place in general) by pointing to a handful of isolated examples of misconduct. For a real world example, imagine if someone decided to move away from a rural town in Idaho - citing that it had terrible gang violence, a strip club, and too many bars [assume all of these things exist in tiny proportions]. Reasonable people wouldn't suddenly deem that small town America's new vice den; they'd just presume that the person moved for personal reasons.
