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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The-Magic-Sword" data-source="post: 9623445" data-attributes="member: 6801252">I think I agree with some of his actual points regarding not trying to force the GM to play what you want, and the basic etiquette that players should be more willing to run games, but the tirade about who Matt feels is entitled to complain and more specifically who isn't had me rolling my eyes, I think people are entitled to speak up when their community spaces start being overly negative toward the thing it's nominally for fans of, and I think the disagreement over the points brought up is a healthy part of the discourse.I think some of that comes down to the idea that he see's forums and subreddits as users just spinning their wheels to vent, whereas I think I see these spaces as having a lot more impact on the playerbase at large because of the way things tend to percolate through groups, so you kind of need to speak up to make sure some voices don't overly dominate the conversation. They tend to be very susceptible to turning into a hivemind if the dissenting voices are bullied into shutting up, especially for games like DND or Pathfinder, where double checking a claim takes at least a little work-- new players come into the space and the "received wisdom" leaves them with lots of misconceptions, sometimes that's about the system, and sometimes that's about the culture and etiquette surrounding the game.</blockquote>