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Bannings
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idk, guys. i have everyone i’d want now on this board.
honestly, seeing everyone come together to help out herja healed any last bit of anger for me? weirdly? so thank you, everyone who helped and said nice words and herja herself for putting her trust in us.
now i’m just chilling
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There is no room in the hobby for people like Spider or Cullen. There is no room in the hobby for people like pMonique, Ghost, or Hobos. It’s all the same behavior. If you’re setting up an environment that encourages them – actively enables them!!!, by shutting down people who tell people about it! – you might want to take a moment to evaluate that and what that says about you.
I do not think that the MSB admin sent hobos over here to threaten me, or had anything at all to do with that. I don’t hold them responsible for that. I do hold them responsible for not letting someone correct the record when he started lying about it there, and instead actually encouraging and enabling him. ESPECIALLY given that exactly what happened happened in the light of day. It is publicly available, and everyone can see it.
POINTING OUT SOMEBODY’S ABUSIVE BEHAVIOR IS NOT BULLYING.
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I really need to stop going back there to find out what y’all are talking about in these conversations.
Most of those two threads came off to me like people who complain about how America needs more civility in its discourse, where “civility” is code for “never protesting when someone hurts you because that might make people who support hurting you (or just lack the spine to stand up against people who hurt you) feel uncomfortable.”
“How can we heal the community,” moans man who refuses to listen to the complaints of anyone he disagrees with and immediately dismisses them as being part of a clique of people he can’t identify but whose villainous intentions he knows without question. He offers this question in an echo chamber where the people he needs to address literally cannot respond to him, because he has no interest in an answer to the question, just in appearing to be a put-upon peacemaker who is rejected by those unreasonable whisper-campaigning bitches in The Clique.
It’s enough to put my off my dinner. Fuck.
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Having been through a very large forum schism in the past that had some mirrors here (admin goes on banning spree and gets rid of some prolific posters, people leave in protest, some celebrate, new board starts) I can say that time really is the only thing that heals it. While it might feel like the posters here got kicked out of their “home” I bet you in a couple months or so you’re going to be like ‘wow I cannot believe I ever posted there’ and then later cringe at the fact that your posts there are still searchable, what were you thinking, oh god why.
But mostly even if you rail at injustice anywhere (I’m like that too!) it’s just not worth your time. Which won’t matter till it burns out of your system just like any bad relationship in your life. Sometimes one of my friends will drop that they still post at the old board and I’ll be surprised and like ‘ugh, why’ but honestly if those people are posting over there, I don’t have to deal with them and that’s a-ok with me.
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@Solstice You didn’t know you’re apart of MKUltra?
On a more serious note, there is nothing of value anyone is going to get by going back to MSB and reading garbage you can’t reply to. As someone who’s default setting is usually angry, it’s not going to do any good. Easier said than done, but the further in your rear view it is, the better it’ll eventually become.
If hobos and VK want to hang onto their hate and keep feeding their victim complex, that’s their hill to die on. And it’s all they’ll know because the concept of 'letting shit go is likely a foreign idea.
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It was everyone EXCEPT for a single clique.
Half the people in this thread were on my ignore list on MSB because all you talk about is Arx - and because some of you are a little SJW for my tastes, ngl.
But nothing brings people together like a common enemy, and goddamn if Derp doesn’t make it easy to dislike him.
I would WAY rather be in the Mean Girls Clique than the Rape Apologist Club.
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When the goalposts move so drastically to either side, it’s a lot easier to realize that the people you once thought were a bit too extreme are now much closer than you previously thought.
A shift in perspective can certainly do that!
@Testament said in Bannings:
@Solstice You didn’t know you’re apart of MKUltra?
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“How can we heal the community,” moans man who refuses to listen to the complaints of anyone he disagrees with and immediately dismisses them as being part of a clique of people he can’t identify but whose villainous intentions he knows without question. He offers this question in an echo chamber where the people he needs to address literally cannot respond to him, because he has no interest in an answer to the question, just in appearing to be a put-upon peacemaker who is rejected by those unreasonable whisper-campaigning bitches in The Clique.
I think he heard MSB was a RP forum and got confused about where the RP was actually supposed to take place.
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Since they seem poised to make a fresh round of bans on MSB, sure would be a great time to post links to the Derp Rape Apologia comments, and/or every time Ghost and company have posted their thinly veiled personal attacks on others that have seemingly been swept under the rug, since they are all so quick to point out that sort of thing isn’t tolerated.
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@Jennkryst I still really wouldn’t encourage anyone to post there. I really don’t want them to feel they have to come up with new bullshit to justify themselves. So far those banned are terrorists, were harassing people in DMs and various other things - I’d rather we stop before we are accused of the JFK assassination.
People have made their choices on what they will tolerate in a community, and further posts are convincing no one.
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@Jennkryst I still really wouldn’t encourage anyone to post there. I really don’t want them to feel they have to come up with new bullshit to justify themselves. So far those banned are terrorists, were harassing people in DMs and various other things - I’d rather we stop before we are accused of the JFK assassination.
People have made their choices on what they will tolerate in a community, and further posts are convincing no one.
Yeah, I agree a lot with this. Hobos and Ghost in particular live in a very strange circular reality from which they can’t be broken free.
And it does suck, to know there’s people out there blatantly telling various lies now that they think it’s safe to do so without reprisal. But the less anyone feeds them, the faster they’ll burn out of energy to keep going.
Even if I did get a good laugh out of Ghost pretending again he took any time off from this hobby at all.
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@tsar Or someone will create another Reddit thread about it on r/muds in a way to get a ‘gotcha’ moment. The only part I found interesting is the MUD community by and large could not give two shits about whatever drama is happening within the MUSH community.
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@Testament said in Bannings:
@tsar Or someone will create another Reddit thread about it on r/muds in a way to get a ‘gotcha’ moment. The only part I found interesting is the MUD community by and large could not give two shits about whatever drama is happening within the MUSH community.
I don’t think it would be a terrible idea to advertise BMD on r/MUD, although I’d maybe wait a few months for the drama to die down.
I would also include a note in any ad posted that the board’s mostly populated by MUSH players who tend to be very RP-focused, and perhaps list a few examples of the more popular games that get talked about here. Not all MUDs are RP MUDs, and not everyone on r/MUD endorses RP. I’ve seen more that a few comments on there that are actively hostile towards the concept.
As a caveat, because I know some MUSHers have a mutual level of disdain towards the MUD community at large: I do think that there are plenty of avid roleplayers there as well; people who enjoy both MUDs and MUSHes for different reasons; and people who’ve never heard of MUSHes before, but would enjoy one if they tried it, and are would be open to doing so. MSB is actually how I discovered MUSHes in the first place, after the boards were linked via a RP MUD’s community.
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It was everyone EXCEPT for a single clique.
Half the people in this thread were on my ignore list on MSB because all you talk about is Arx - and because some of you are a little SJW for my tastes, ngl.
ok but i gotta know-- i wasn’t on the ignore list, right?? because i am a delight. and yes, maybe a little SJW.
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@Kestrel I will agree that on the Venn diagram of MUDers and MUSHers, there is a very small overlap of people who probably fall into both categories. Between two large circles, one labels ‘Hate RP’ and ‘Love RP’
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@Testament said in Bannings:
@tsar Or someone will create another Reddit thread about it on r/muds in a way to get a ‘gotcha’ moment. The only part I found interesting is the MUD community by and large could not give two shits about whatever drama is happening within the MUSH community.
I genuinely enjoyed their bafflement over the great MUSH War of 2022 and their subsequent burying of it in numerous posts about literally anything else.
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@Testament said in Bannings:
@Kestrel I will agree that on the Venn diagram of MUDers and MUSHers, there is a very small overlap of people who probably fall into both categories. Between two large circles, one labels ‘Hate RP’ and ‘Love RP’
Not sure I agree with that. There’s a lot of stylistic differences between people that really love RP and still would have a lot of trouble jumping formats, because the way RP is initiated and the approach to it can be very, very different. Imo it is a lot easier to go from like google docs rp or forum rp to MUSH than it is to go from MUD to MUSH-like RP for a lot of people. A mountain of MUD people have tried Arx and I’d say the retention rate on them is far and away the lowest of anyone, significantly worse than people that have never played a MU before at all, and I know I’d have to change massive amounts of stuff for them to find it accessible.
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@Meg let’s don’t worry about that right now
Also, no one needs to post anything on Derp’s Echo Chamber. Post it here. They’re all reading.
The difference being they CAN come here and defend themselves, just choose not to. I don’t have the option of reminding them that they banned me after I broke no rule, posted no profanity-laced flame, just made Gany irritated by posting in a topic she chose to leave unlocked. Not to say I didn’t set out to get banned, but it was remarkably easy to get Gany to violate her own rules and start blindly swinging the banhammer.
Must have ruffled some feathers reminding people their ringleader is a misogynistic victim-blamer.
Guess getting lumped into a collective based on where you post is only fair when they do it. DEVREX is a free and independent thinker. WE are a hive mind, though, and no convincing the embarrassingly myopic Devrex otherwise.
I’m so sorry they feel that way lololol
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