@Ganymede said in MSB: The meta-discussion:
You sure about that?
From what I'm hearing, the hate mobs are being encouraged to go to some other server or program or something.
Yeah, that's the thing. If anything, it's far easier to create 'hate mobs' on specific games than it ever was before, in private chats/skype sessions/whatever. At least MSB is a court of public opinion to some degree (if not a fair or fully-informed one, but that's just life). Shit-talking goes on everywhere and it's most insidious when it happens where no one can see until it blows up or people are frozen out with no explanation.
Also, you know what? I think games like Firan, and Serenity, and Game of Kings and the like deserved to have what was deeply, grossly wrong with those games brought into the public square. Even if people want to continue to play there, forewarned is forearmed. I think I'm a pretty cynical reader of every horror story I skim here, as everyone should be. There are plenty of idiots who pop off over nothing or over pretty grudges from three games ago in which they were actually the asshole. But, I think I've said before, I appreciate the muckraking side of what these boards provide.