MU Peeves Thread

[Gashlycrumb]

@Roz I don’t think getting banned at all is commonplace. Being treated shabbily may be.

Fortunately, the hobby is still big enough and broad enough that Your Milage May Will Vary.

My experience is that I’m playing fewer games and have fewer RP-buddies, but I hear privately about shabby crap at about the same rate or higher, and more insist on keeping it private for fear of repercussions.

[Pavel]

If you go back ten or so years ago, there were definitely places wherein if they discovered you had posted on WORA (or wherever), they would flay you alive, tar you, feather you, fire you into the sea, and then ban you. I can’t think of names off the top of my head because I am an old man, and ten years is a long time.

[Tez]

@Pavel Firan! I got you, old man. They didn’t take kindly to posting in those parts. There’s definitely been a history of admin who frowned upon people posting. I’m not entirely surprised it continues in the future, but I’d sure like to know who.

I find it very telling when people make a policy of not posting. Maybe they realized that when they post they are telling on themselves. It’s always my favorite when someone goes to post and just makes themselves look worse.

[Gashlycrumb]

@Tez

An aside, I feel that Firan’s most excellent moment was when they banned my friend because there were no gay people in Firan-world, or there were only pre-made characters and none were gay, or at the very least, that particular character wasn’t to be gay, but staff could tell that my friend was making the character think gay thoughts.

Did Firan announce its ‘no forum posting’ rule? It seems like that’s one that doesn’t end up on game websites, but shows on bbs. I’m not sure Blood of Dragons has it on their site either, though it’s well-known and they have a history of bbposts forbidding players to ever mention other GoT/ASOIAF MUs or to speculate on how long it might be before George R. R. Martin gets the finger out and finishes the next book, etc.

[Nynrose]

I want to RP so badly but there are no Fantasy based MU’s out there.

[MisterBoring]

My current peeve is that my life is so screwed up right now I barely have time for random computer & video games let alone the brain power required for RP.

[Pavel]

@Tez said in MU Peeves Thread:

Firan! I got you, old man.

Well, that one’s a gimme. If you can think of a stupid policy, Firan did it first and worst.

Firanites don’t have buttholes, remember.

[STD]

@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Tez said in MU Peeves Thread:

Firan! I got you, old man.

Firanites don’t have buttholes, remember.

… Wat?

[Muscle Car]

@Pavel “No” buttholes?
Skill issue.

[Juniper]

Where did their buttholes go? Is there a butthole thief?

[Gashlycrumb]

@Tez said in MU Peeves Thread:

I find it very telling when people make a policy of not posting. Maybe they realized that when they post they are telling on themselves. It’s always my favorite when someone goes to post and just makes themselves look worse.

This puzzles me.

If game-runners make a policy forbidding others to post, I find it telling.

But the majority of people in the hobby neither read nor post to forums about the hobby. I don’t think it’s because they know they’ll look bad, they just don’t, uh. Want to.

Do you mean people who have a rant in private but keep it private? Or?

[Tez]

@Gashlycrumb I mean when people make it a policy not to post. That’s it. It’s not complicated.

People can and do rant in private, or in other semi-public forums, discords, reddits. Whatever! That’s all fine. People can say what they want, when they want, where they want. That includes the right to silence, too. No one has to post here, there, or anywhere. If someone doesn’t want to, then please, don’t.

It’s when you make it a policy to police what staff or players on your game can do that it becomes sticky.

[Prototart]

@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

If you go back ten or so years ago, there were definitely places wherein if they discovered you had posted on WORA (or wherever), they would flay you alive, tar you, feather you, fire you into the sea, and then ban you.

it isn’t that this changed it’s just that nobody ever comes to dump things anymore

everybody either silently deals with it until they can’t or just leaves bc they know exposing like even the absolute worst behaviors won’t accomplish anything and literally no one will care who didn’t already