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(applause) This is pragmatic and realistic. Assuming that EVERYONE has good faith intentions towards the shared goal of reducing harassment, is right up there with the historical error of Neville Chamberlain, who bragged that he had secured "peace in our time". If you interpret my posts, any...

Oh, okay. Thank you for explaining. Now I'm 100% with you, on this point at least. Though I've played D&D with some people I'd rather not leave alone with my sisters. Building on your point about defending the freedom to harass, by applying harassment: there is a faction here, who don't want...

Thank you for asking! IMO, asking is often better than jumping to conclusions, at least when the poster has elsewhere made substantial arguments in good faith. DannyAlcatraz asked what we could do, to reduce harassment, and what price we would pay. I laid out a comprehensive working model...

Alas, the action economy is not in your favor. Casting Wall of Text takes you an action; in some game systems, a Complex Action. Casting Derail, however, is a Reaction; trivially easy, by comparison. In practice, Wall of Text is mainly useful on willing targets, and is very difficult to impose...

I agree. There is a saying that "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere". Contrariwise, any advancement of justice, sets a useful precedent and good example for the rest of human society. If this is your larger point, then I'm on board. However... So you say. I have seen...

You have posted this in your community member role, rather than your Moderator role, if I understand correctly. Is this therefore fair game for dissent, disagrement, and debate? Is the thread open to counter-arguments, asserting that we don't need boundaries, and that we don't need enforcement?

Yeah, how do we do that *only* in the RPG hobby space, without affecting or observing it, in the rest of the world? What is the particular method which is unique to RPGers? Maybe we should study harassment and counter-harassment methods in Greyhawk, then in Forgotten Realms, solve them there...

On one hand, I won't discourage gratitude. As a general rule. On another hand, here are two questions with a significant difference: "Should we reduce harassment at cons? If so, how?" If that's the question, then all of the answers along the lines "No, everything's fine, boys will be boys...

DannyAlcatraz, you have my respect; often, also, my agreement. In this particular case, though... It might be useful to FIRST recognize the point, that most guys' threat detection equipment is calibrated more for one set of hazards, than for another... and THEN raise any questions about any of...

On one hand, there's all the posts which pinged your threat assessment radar, before you started pointing them out. On another hand, you pointed them out, and they squealed in outrage, and at this point, there may be EN Worlders (and/or former EN Worlders blaming you for their bans) who would...

Well, yeah, YOU take that as necessary. I included you on the Betacon list. As you may have noticed, self-improvement is not a consensus position among participants in this thread. I like economic incentives. That said, what if the owner of a large building in NYC, offered its use, free, to...

I am on neither end of the buyer-seller relationship in this scenario. I was hoping to get readers thinking about risk and price, on a facts-first, solve-the-problem, pragmatic basis, so that they would weigh the role of gender in risk... ...for at least a few seconds, before the third rail of...

On the topic of risk assessment, here's two hypothetical scenarios for consideration, because capitalism: I register for AphaCon. I am concerned about dogs. I ask an insurance company for the following coverage: if I see a dog, off leash and not in a service dog harness, that's already a...

When you assess whether a dog might bite you, dogs who bark and growl indicate higher risk. When you are a woman assessing whether a man will appoint himself as your protector, and whether he'd then consider you "ungrateful" if you failed to reward his "protection" with a kiss or at least...

Thank you. You understood where I was going, and expressed it more clearly. Personal discomfort, as a consequence of personal reflection, rather than one person imposing discomfort on another through action.

On page 65 of the thread, the remaining participants are down to those with serious concerns about harassment, versus those who are, for whatever reason, persistently opposed to anyone having serious concerns about harassment. Everyone who's identified themselves as a woman is in the former...

For years I regularly attended a certain series of all-night dance parties. I won't claim that harassment or related misbehavior never occurred; such a claim would be rash. But the culture inclined strongly towards respect and consent. If women dressed in a way which covered up, that was their...

And when you battle with dragons, beware, lest your level grow higher than their CR.

They could hire a brony to open it. Friendship: The Gathering is Magic!

Some of us can "pass"; your failure to see us, does NOT mean that we're absent. It's safer for us to lurk, than to speak up. So many humans prefer that we serve silently; so many humans react with immediate, almost reflexive fear, when we deviate from that expectation. There's even a trope in...