Posts made by Kanye Qwest

how about just let people criticize or bring up negative experiences without letting it devolve into a bunch of RL character judgments and horrifying vitriol?

20 degrees?? You need to do yoga a lot more than you need deadlifts.

@ganymede That's cool (I mean it's not, boo work) and no one really needs to DEFEND themselves, but there's nearly as much commentary about moving the harmless thread where it belongs as there is actual thread commentary. Seems a little derailing.

I don't know, maybe all three board moderators don't need to move/comment on moving a totally benign post? Like, great enthusiasm but also maybe overkill.

@arkandel Ok it was already moved there, and both the other moderators commented on it. Calm down, guys.

@wizz Maybe a Baron! We need more data.

@lithium There's no forum that's about mushing or the board but isn't "mildly constructive" or "the hog pit". And this didn't belong in the hog pit. So,

We are all equal, except the one. The chosen one. (I also imagine it is either Mietze or someone with like, four posts)

Who is the REAL princess of MSB? Take your reputation count and divide it by your post count. Can you beat my score, of 1.48?

ARE YOU THE REAL PRINCESS (OR PRINCE, OR ROYALPERSON)?

O.o

@arkandel I mean sorry for the obvious question but what about a brace?

@tempest I think there are two discussions, here. A general "how can we make MSB a more useful and somewhat more pleasant place to engage with" and "someone is making wild accusations about harboring stalkers or something something vague something".

The latter doesn't really negate the former.

@Roz I am plotting your death. 100%

I mean it's still in the 80s here but ok. I got my fitbit and my foot surgery and everything.

And then she went on a multi post tirade about how some of us are shitty human beings! But I don't regret donating. I can feel it, this is the time things turn around. This is the day we start our diets, and jog before work.

Squirrel Girl is a joke, herself. She's a low powered character that somehow is always unbeatable. Off screen.

I liked Batfleck, tbh. He was playing a Dark Knight sort and I think honestly they should have really had a scene in his family crypt with Dick Grayson's grave or something, to show it. But other than that, I thought his performance was fine. The tone of the movie was not good, and the writing was dumb.

@thenomain You can have a very 'successful' - IE long lived and popular game that does not at all foster a healthy community. Take Firan, for instance. Now, Firan's staff was NOT always the hotbed of insanity and unethical behavior people will tell you, here. It just wasn't. When I was part of it, though, it was very lax about some things, and SOME staffers, and very very strict about other things I also found stupid. But, no one could argue that the game community was a healthy one where people collaborated well.

So, sure. You're right, over-invested and unfair staffers (I object to the term PHB for a lot of reasons) have run a lot of popular games. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't discuss/strive for better.

@ghost You're never going to make people like each other. Arx players make private discord channels for all their shit-talk needs, and we can't really do anything about it. All you can do is keep it off your game.

2 alts seems good. You still get some camping, but you just have to be willing to monitor it in SOME way and reach out. We do it on Arx, by counting poses done in a room with other characters. We don't have one set cutoff, we just kind of look at it like, if you had 0 poses the last two weeks, and only 20 the two weeks before that, I don't really call that very active on a roster character. Maybe make an OC, which has no activity requirement, and go from there. I suggest that, see if they want to talk about it, can be more active, etc.

I also think Apos is super right about the type of game environment you create (not shocking, I mean we obviously staff a game together). I think it's important for people to openly have the impression that being shitty, snarky, or mean towards other players is not ok, and I wade into many ooc channels to enforce that on a daily basis.

it's not fun. I get accused of attacking people, paying favorites, 'punishing' people, and trying to run a game WITHOUT FREE SPEECH, etc etc. You can't be conflict averse AND create the game environment you want, if you want any sort of standard of behaviour. You just can't, ESPECIALLY if you have some players in coveted positions/characters that others want.

Or you could maybe disallow all OOC communication, like an RPI?