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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 6252979" data-attributes="member: 87792">On the other hand if that's what's being held up as nasty in the RPG community it means that we are one of the nicest communities on the internet that's large enough to have schisms that I'm aware of.  That article had no threats involved (as there are in some of the other communities I post in - the only suggestion I recall reading that someone be mutilated over RPGs was The RPG Pundit talking about Monte Cook) - death threats have been made in the video game community <a href="http://kotaku.com/death-threats-follow-small-call-of-duty-tweak-888324886" target="_blank">over increasing the reload time of a sniper rifle</a> or <a href="http://kotaku.com/5904367/another-day-another-death-threat-from-gamers-to-the-people-who-make-video-games" target="_blank">over making facebook games</a>.  And that's only about games.  As far as I know no one has been doxxed over RPGs and there's no one suggesting that anyone be fired from their jobs over their comments about RPGs unless it's to do with the fact they are RPG designers doing a bad job. Admittedly some of the other communities I'm part of are lightning rods for nasty arguments.  But from everything I've seen we're nicer than most non-face-to-face communities up to and including fans of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.  (OK, so I chose that example because their fandom is notorious).  But to call us, as a community, nasty is in my experience insular.</blockquote>

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