@Ghost said in MSB: The meta-discussion:
I think that WORA and MSB have been responsible for more negative behavior than positive. In fact, I'm of the opinion that WORA and MSB are primarily positive mostly as a resource for finding out which games are the new games.
I can't argue with an opinion, which is what I call a statement cannot reasonably be proven as false. So, one of the things I have to decry is how, on WORA and MSB, opinions masquerade as facts.
WORA/MSB help spread and cement the following negative behaviors:
- The creation of cliques centered around board veterans, and the weird maintaining of ooc reputation through board posts alone
Allow me to concur with @Thenomain by laughing so hard at this that my food literally fires out of my ass and shreds my underwear.
- Mob-justice, valid or invalid, gets taken to the boards where anyone unethical with a slightly convincing argument can use the board as a social dominance tool
I have yet to see any game or clique rise or fall based on what was said on WORA or MSB. You're free to provide an example.
- Promotion of the player over the character, thus expanding the assumption that all characters are the player
The connection between players and characters has been discussed ad nauseam, with no concurrence. I guess I better remind my partner that I've been on stage as Othello, so that bitch better not lose my hanky.
- The ooc connection Nexus for players to spread gossip, which is usually heavily one-sided, and build that into the community's network.
This board shares and shreds gossip in equal measure.
If you mean to say that community members may have greater sway over other members because they have better skills of persuasion? I can get behind that. And has this misled others? It sure has, as a truism. But that's the nature of communicating in a written medium, so you might as well rail as to how newspapers seem to be able to convince people of their perspective by publishing articles that others read.