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<blockquote data-quote="GVDammerung" data-source="post: 4856735" data-attributes="member: 33060"><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: white">I disagree with the ban.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: white">Accepting for purposes of discussion of the ban that “5e” is code for “4e sucks” and hence “edition warring,” something important is being missed, I think. The biggest story to emerge from 4e is how the D&D community has been split; edition wars are merely the most obvious symptom of the split. Banning the most egregious examples of “edition warring” on a poster by poster basis is fine. Banning discussion of a potential 5e throws the baby out with the bathwater. Such an overbroad ban:</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: white">1st – Ignores the hulking presence of the split in the D&D community and makes EN World look by turns silly and Pollyanna-like.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: white">2nd – Appears too easily as defacto taking sides in the edition wars - as an endorsement of the status quo or past as the only legitimate discussion, necessarily isolating those unhappy with the status quo and not yet ready to live only in the past.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: white">3rd – Removes any hope of positively addressing the split via a discussion of D&D’s future that perforce is something relevant to all D&D players, not just Edition X or Edition Y. The future is common to fans of all editions.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: white">The split in the D&D community occasioned by the release of 4e happened. The split continues. It is relevant. On any relevant D&D forum it should be able to be discussed as it effects D&D now and going forward. Ignoring it with bans, when individual posters who discuss the split only in terms of “edition wars” can be censored instead, is misguided and destructive of EN World’s reputation as THE place for D&D discussion.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p>YMMV</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GVDammerung, post: 4856735, member: 33060"] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=white]I disagree with the ban.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=white][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=white]Accepting for purposes of discussion of the ban that “5e” is code for “4e sucks” and hence “edition warring,” something important is being missed, I think. The biggest story to emerge from 4e is how the D&D community has been split; edition wars are merely the most obvious symptom of the split. Banning the most egregious examples of “edition warring” on a poster by poster basis is fine. Banning discussion of a potential 5e throws the baby out with the bathwater. Such an overbroad ban:[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=white][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=white]1st – Ignores the hulking presence of the split in the D&D community and makes EN World look by turns silly and Pollyanna-like.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=white][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=white]2nd – Appears too easily as defacto taking sides in the edition wars - as an endorsement of the status quo or past as the only legitimate discussion, necessarily isolating those unhappy with the status quo and not yet ready to live only in the past.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=white][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=white]3rd – Removes any hope of positively addressing the split via a discussion of D&D’s future that perforce is something relevant to all D&D players, not just Edition X or Edition Y. The future is common to fans of all editions.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=white][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=white]The split in the D&D community occasioned by the release of 4e happened. The split continues. It is relevant. On any relevant D&D forum it should be able to be discussed as it effects D&D now and going forward. Ignoring it with bans, when individual posters who discuss the split only in terms of “edition wars” can be censored instead, is misguided and destructive of EN World’s reputation as THE place for D&D discussion.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] YMMV [/QUOTE]
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