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So yeah, I blame a very vocal portion of the hobby. Is it the same vocal portion that you are blaming?
You've yet to make a convincing argument for why we ought to consider that a bad thing.
I think I have. My view of it is we are giving into our worse nature online when we publicly shame or go after people like this, or when we recklessly pursue a moral program of some kind in the wake of such an event. I think there is a lot of cruelty being expressed in this thread and people don't see it, because they think they are so correct. Personally I am not a big fan of cruelty.
Obviously I disagree. I think we are seeing the whole hobby focus on this one individual over one incident and many are calling for him to be banned from other cobs, for him to be pushed out of the hobby, and for reforms like all cons using X cards as a result of all this. I think it is fair to question whether this is moving in a good direction, whether this response is appropriate and whether it is going to cause undo hardship on the GM in question. Everyone is so confident in the moral judgment of the community and of the ability of this kind of online reaction to produce good results. I am not. Again I think there is good reason to be cautious here. Personally I am pretty uncomfortable with the reaction. And like I said, I have been pretty uncomfortable with how the hobby has become more moblike online.
I think I have. My view of it is we are giving into our worse nature online when we publicly shame or go after people like this, or when we recklessly pursue a moral program of some kind in the wake of such an event. I think there is a lot of cruelty being expressed in this thread and people don't see it, because they think they are so correct. Personally I am not a big fan of cruelty.
So, when you have clear evidence of somebody behaving cruelly towards others, how would you proceed in resolving that situation?
I would not publicly shame them or try to push them out if the hobby. I would probably something in the moment. Again it isn’t so black and white.
It is a subjective sense of course
but this topic is getting a lot of discussion on social media among gamers (including this rather long thread).
Any time this sort of thing occurs it tends to become a big topic of discussion.
I don’t think ‘all gamers’ care about it.