(02-05-2014, 09:46 AM)Kylin Wrote: I'd like to ask that everyone please refrain from personal attacks, as I've now seen quite a number of them.
That being said, I will have to respectfully agree with the overall sentiments/concerns being shared about this event. When it comes to the culture of a RP community, revealing one's real life gender (or other real life details) specifically for an event is fairly taboo. Part of RP is about temporarily removing oneself from reality, and such requirements are counterintuitive to that in that it literally eradicates the line between IC and OOC. So I can certainly understand why many are taking this issue as a jab against RPers in general. It's very difficult for RPers to view an event like this as a RP event at all.
Regardless, good luck with the community-wide event. Just be prepared that you're bound to get quite a few non-RP griefers based on how it was advertised in general.
I'm just going to echo this and a lot of the sentiment already stated. I think it's wonderful to fundraise for your FC house but the method could have used some work. While possibly encouraging 5% more people, it's probably inviting 20% more griefers or those who would definitely take this more than "just RP"
I can sort of understand your mindset about why putting RL information helps make it inclusive but I don't think it's truly been thought out. In my mind, it brings very little benefit and brings you a lot more trouble than that benefit is worth. It puts more burden on your FC mates than necessary.
I hope it all works well, but any type of griefer or harasser won't care about the rules and by the time you need to do the reporting it's just that much time you could have spent with others while raising money. Neither of the threads (here or SE's) require you to do any login or whatnot to read any of the RL gender information that is apparently freely given. People won't need to use it just to grief during this event, some people may use this to troll afterwards, etc. If one incident didn't happen I'd be very surprised, but I do hope you won't get any.