@kanye-qwest said in Encouraging Proactive Players:
If you want to 'vent', whine, and complain, do it to your friends.
Nothing wrong with venting on a public venue unless you're overdoing it or you're being a jerk. Anyone can go "OMG screw Mondays... amirite?" on the public channel. It's fixating on your issues for half an hour afterwards that's a problem.
Don't whine on channels about other people getting things.
In my experience that's typically a way to apply pressure. They aren't really whining, they're asking for more stuff for themselves but over a venue they believe gives them deniability ("I wasn't really saying Bob didn't deserve that sword! I'm just chatting, hah-hah.")
Don't whine publicly about people not loving your char or not responding to you fast enough. That isn't just a player being human, that's a player being a negative brat.
Yeah, I got nothing here. I'd also add public boasting about how awesome your character is and how much you love them and how great RP is over and over again because... come on.
And if you let that shit fly, your environment becomes INUNDATED with it. Everyone should be free to whine and snark and complain /sometimes/, right? Wrong. Wrong, or the whining and complaining will overwhelm the atmosphere.
IMHO within measure there are no issue letting some air out. The problem is when things get out of hand because because won't STFU about it, either in the short or even the long term. No one wants to deal with a chronic whiner.