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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8038327" data-attributes="member: 82106">One point I'd make to the thread in general: When you go down the road of criticizing, particularly to the degree of demanding ostracism or at least censorship, you need to bear a very heavy burden. I don't want or mean to lay some load on people who are dealing with &quot;yet another idiot saying stupid things about us.&quot; (if not worse) but it is a heavy burden. Ideally everyone is able to both consume and produce material without too much trouble.One thing that seems to be a danger, albeit most producers may not have much to worry about today, is that there will be such a high bar raised that eventually only the most well-heeled corporate organizations will be left producing game material. It is already QUITE clear that the potential for people who are not satisfied with some material to force its removal/demonitization/revision is a reality right now today. MANY things have been pushed off DriveThru RPG for example (probably all of them were fairly offensive to a lot of people, I'm not defending anything). Clearly we just need to be cognizant that both producers and consumers of material need to exercise some discretion and try to operate with good will and in good faith.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8038327, member: 82106"] One point I'd make to the thread in general: When you go down the road of criticizing, particularly to the degree of demanding ostracism or at least censorship, you need to bear a very heavy burden. I don't want or mean to lay some load on people who are dealing with "yet another idiot saying stupid things about us." (if not worse) but it is a heavy burden. Ideally everyone is able to both consume and produce material without too much trouble. One thing that seems to be a danger, albeit most producers may not have much to worry about today, is that there will be such a high bar raised that eventually only the most well-heeled corporate organizations will be left producing game material. It is already QUITE clear that the potential for people who are not satisfied with some material to force its removal/demonitization/revision is a reality right now today. MANY things have been pushed off DriveThru RPG for example (probably all of them were fairly offensive to a lot of people, I'm not defending anything). Clearly we just need to be cognizant that both producers and consumers of material need to exercise some discretion and try to operate with good will and in good faith. [/QUOTE]

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