Just this week...

[Theory of Games]

EW is way better than Big Purp and IMO has so much more to offer than most other ttrpg-centric sites. Please keep doing what you do

 

[Bedrockgames]

... I got told:

• "I could care less about corrupt slime like you Morrus"
• "a place run by a hypocritical corrupt fraudulent tyrant like you"
• "pretend to be a petty king and feel important then"

That's just this week. Mainly as a result of just asking people to tone things down or to please not call people names on my forum.

Please be aware that when you get excited and hyperbolic, the eventual consequences are not on you, they're on me. The people who respond angrily to your bait end up being moderated, and guess who they blame? Yup, me, or Danny, or Umbran.

So when a moderator asks you to tone it down, don't just indignantly think 'gosh, they're tone policing me, how dare they', think 'OK, maybe they will get death threats in a week after this escalates'.

To be transparent, death threats are fortunately rare; mainly we get insults and other attacks, like those above, but it has happened--also over the years I have been assured that should I visit Gen Con there is not only somebody waiting for me with a baseball bat but also I will be sued and arrested instantly should I step foot on American soil. No I am not slightly concerned, but that is the sort of nonsense people spew.

So please, bear in mind, your post might be something else in a week's time, and you aren't the person who has to handle the fallout. If a moderator asks you to tone it down, it's because they are very familiar with the patterns and they seek to avoid the trajectory they know is coming. Even IF you can't see how your post is so bad.

Thanks, all!

Sorry you are getting these kinds of messages. You always struck me as a decent person

Death threats definitely shouldn't be tolerated. I really can't believe how far people take these things sometimes

 

[rhythmsoundmotion]

I hope the next few days calm way way down.

I really try not to be flippant or too casual with anything I say. I would hate for anyone to take something I say as anything other than continual amazement at the opportunity to be part of this imaginative and inspiring hobby.

I am one to take constructive criticism seriously and will read any direct message or reply with consideration.

 

[Sacrosanct]

That person deserves a ban for bad grammar.

Irregardles, for all intensive purposes, they should have flushed out their response better. I mean, the proof is in the pudding.

 

[Smackpixi]

This is great to hear, makes me feel that even my dismissive drunk hot takes are not the worst thing around here, I should do more of them. Seriously though, I feel like I’ve done some embarrassing things here, but not that.

 

[Theory of Games]

Folks have been selling wolf tickets online since the first chat rooms. Ignore them.

 

[Joshua Randall]

Irregardles, for all intents and purposes, they should have flushed out their response better. I mean, the proof is in the pudding.

Anyway, it’s a mute point.