@surreality said in The Apology Thread:
I think this is something that the community, collectively, could be a lot better about, too. It is full of a lot of unspoken 'how things are done' that serves as a major barrier to new folks joining in and creator of conflicts that need never happen.
There are probably a lot of new players we all owe apologies for expecting them to automatically acclimate to a hobby culture that has evolved a lot of quirks that have come to be expectations over its lifetime.
Agree, a lot. That's a lot of the reasoning behind the way we do things on Arx. Even though there's a lot of code and thus a big learning curve, we very much try to keep the power of policing players out of player hands, because when games are like that there's a lot of low level snobbery and impatient correction that are VERY unwelcoming to new people.