They do have that right, as I said before. However a problem arises for the people who are on the outside fringes and can see what's happening, and when it affects a large part of the community involved in the game.
However to people on the outside or people who are thinking of joining this game/following the players, it presents a problem. If I had just seen the posts/comments about the wank and not heard anything from one of the people who read the post (and even she only finished half the post before deciding to stay the hell away from the wank as much as possible) then I'd still have looked around and found the following:
More then one player are upset, and at least one was at one point close to tears.
A player tried to lighten things up and got jumped on, yes it was resolved, but it shows how tense things were at one point and how even rational people were getting upset.
Biz wanted to make a comment about passive-aggressive behavior but stopped. If this is about the wank I don't really know, but if it isn't then it's really unfortunate timing.
A lot of people made twitter posts and fewer lj posts about it, showing how widespread it got.
As someone going in blind I would not have assumed that things were really resolved. And frankly if I was a new player considering apping, the lack of some sort of mod post saying "okay guys, you're free to have a opinion obviously, but please don't take it out on the players" or something... would really make me worry about apping from that canon. Moreover I would start to wonder what other canons would get that reaction.
Case in point: I did have an app planned for that canon, but now I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. There's enough interest in the character that someone might take them if I waited a round for things to cool down, but if I app them this round then I'm afraid that a lot of people are going to abstain or be harder on the app because of either a conscious or unconscious bias. And yes, this is something I have seen in the past few months, I don't like naming characters, but if you really want to know I'll elaborate.
In the end I'm not saying that the people involved should unflock their posts, but a notice by the mods in the ooc comm would be nice and relieve some of my worries about the situation and how it might affect me. There's other points I want to say, but I'm going to continue on them in Sera's reply since she has a lot of the same points.
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However to people on the outside or people who are thinking of joining this game/following the players, it presents a problem. If I had just seen the posts/comments about the wank and not heard anything from one of the people who read the post (and even she only finished half the post before deciding to stay the hell away from the wank as much as possible) then I'd still have looked around and found the following:
As someone going in blind I would not have assumed that things were really resolved. And frankly if I was a new player considering apping, the lack of some sort of mod post saying "okay guys, you're free to have a opinion obviously, but please don't take it out on the players" or something... would really make me worry about apping from that canon. Moreover I would start to wonder what other canons would get that reaction.
Case in point: I did have an app planned for that canon, but now I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. There's enough interest in the character that someone might take them if I waited a round for things to cool down, but if I app them this round then I'm afraid that a lot of people are going to abstain or be harder on the app because of either a conscious or unconscious bias. And yes, this is something I have seen in the past few months, I don't like naming characters, but if you really want to know I'll elaborate.
In the end I'm not saying that the people involved should unflock their posts, but a notice by the mods in the ooc comm would be nice and relieve some of my worries about the situation and how it might affect me. There's other points I want to say, but I'm going to continue on them in Sera's reply since she has a lot of the same points.