Your Latest Batch of (Silly) Drama

[Pavel]

@Aria said in Your Latest Batch of (Silly) Drama:

sticks you in the middle of a real life couple and their drama.

[Jumpscare]

I found this while researching a reported player the other day.

https://forums.untold-dawn.com/t/banned-amorcinocera-cameron-a-tall-tanned-man/280

To summarize, Amor RPs something he regrets, gets bullied about it incessantly by another player (Nine) IC, and wishes it would stop so he could have fun playing the game again. Amor goes to staff (Rune) to find a resolution.

If it were me handling this, the easiest solution would be to cancel that storyline and reach out to the character who’s doing the bullying to remind them to check-in OOC to see if other players are having fun with the teasing. Matter resolved. Make a note of it for future reference.

That’s not at all what happened in this circumstance. I don’t even know how to fully explain it. Amor was talked down to by Rune to the point that Amor seemingly regretted even bringing it up. Nine was banned later on, and Rune saw Amor improving afterwards. However, Amor still felt unappreciated. He seemingly let it bleed into RP in a pair of THINKs, and then realized that the best choice was to take a break. So he did, and Rune banned him on his way out.

We don’t have the full story from the logs, but I certainly wouldn’t feel appreciated if the only positivity I received from staff was when I agreed to stay quiet about the issue that was preventing me from enjoying the game.

In my experience as staff, when someone is coming to you with a problem about another player that’s affecting their ability to play, they’re most often taking a huge leap of faith that you’ll find some way to help them find enjoyment again. I say it’s a leap of faith, because plenty of players have been burned by conversations like this one that make reaching out to staff an anxiety-inducing affair.

People are going to make mistakes in their RP that make them uncomfortable OOC. We don’t need to force players to live with those mistakes.

[Pavel]

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[Roz]

@Jumpscare i’m too mad about people putting text in code blocks that doesn’t have a word wrap. you think i’m gonna scroll horizontally?

[Juniper]

“Do you think I should ban people for having conflicts with other characters and making indirect references to these conflicts? Do you think I should ban people from nicknaming other characters or police the nicknames they provide to other characters?”

Holy hell, talking down to someone doesn’t even begin to capture the hostility radiating off this admin. I feel like there’s a few possibilities available between “ban people for nicknames” and “do nothing”.

This could’ve easily been talked out. This is why people don’t talk to staffers unless it’s a last resort.

[Pavel]

@Roz said in Your Latest Batch of (Silly) Drama:

you think i’m gonna scroll horizontally?

Hey. That’s all my waistline does now.

[dvoraen]

Folks I’m concerned. I think @Rucket may have been taken over by an AI.

ARE YOU OKAY? Use 1 for yes, and 0 for no. Matrix code will be confirmation of needing to run anti-virus on you.

[Rucket]

@dvoraen beep boop

[Nilli]

I was looking for something in my emails this morning, and came across one with the subject line “Oh, the drama” that was of course about RP drama and, also, 19 years old at this point.

It’s basically a TREASURE TROVE of nonsense, but I need to share my favorite line, from a player being extremely over-dramatic at me. Context is that he was VERY PARANOID that he was going to get banned, and I pointed out that Camden (my fellow co-admin at the time) had JUST told him he wasn’t in danger of being banned.

"Dylan…It’s insane not to plan for the ‘what ifs’. What if Camden gets hit by a bus?

I’m happy to say that Camden never did get hit by that bus.

[dvoraen]

FOUND: @tsar’s runaway Ares s . They’ve been hiding as not-crabs.

BONUS: A bad (Dad?) joke.

Q: What is the most useful computer science knowledge a Pern dragonrider can have but never applies for in chargen?

Spoiler

A: Multithreading.

[tsar]

@dvoraen I’m about to have so many snails.

[bear_necessities]

@dvoraen ok but what game is that???

[Jennkryst]

@bear_necessities Random guess as No Man’s Sky, but its been years so I only half remember what their version of the ‘feed animal’ interface looks like.

[MisterBoring]

@Jennkryst @bear_necessities
I recognize that game. It’s Lightyear Frontier, the cozy farm building mech game.

[dvoraen]

@tsar said in Your Latest Batch of (Silly) Drama:

@dvoraen I’m about to have so many snails.

Does this mean you’re playing this game and are going to catch a lot of croblings snails?