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<blockquote data-quote="Sparkle_cz" data-source="post: 9271781" data-attributes="member: 7044879">Unfortunately the Czech community is very small so when these &quot;unnecessary-prose-loving&quot; writers want to engage with the community and have exposure for their work, they have to share the same social platforms as the edgelords who give them hell.There is one particularly toxic person who is on basically EVERY czech RPG social media and gatekeeps and gatekeeps and no one bans him because he is smart enough to wrap his gatekeeping into polite sentences where he basically gaslights the author using these arguments:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">you are harming the community by creating a suboptimal work because you deform the good taste of the readers and give them wrong assumptions about what is and what is not good design</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">you detract newbies who start with your product and because of its flaws they give up on RPGs and then they think badly of the industry as a whole.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">even if your product is for free, you still wasted the customer's time and that is unacceptable.</li>
</ul>Yes, this mindset is sick but it's unfortunately happening.After I finish my latest RPG book (hopefully this year) I plan to engage more into this matter, I will try to help create safe spaces for small Czech authors. Let's hope it helps at least a bit.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sparkle_cz, post: 9271781, member: 7044879"] Unfortunately the Czech community is very small so when these "unnecessary-prose-loving" writers want to engage with the community and have exposure for their work, they have to share the same social platforms as the edgelords who give them hell. There is one particularly toxic person who is on basically EVERY czech RPG social media and gatekeeps and gatekeeps and no one bans him because he is smart enough to wrap his gatekeeping into polite sentences where he basically gaslights the author using these arguments: [LIST] [*]you are harming the community by creating a suboptimal work because you deform the good taste of the readers and give them wrong assumptions about what is and what is not good design [*]you detract newbies who start with your product and because of its flaws they give up on RPGs and then they think badly of the industry as a whole. [*]even if your product is for free, you still wasted the customer's time and that is unacceptable. [/LIST] Yes, this mindset is sick but it's unfortunately happening. After I finish my latest RPG book (hopefully this year) I plan to engage more into this matter, I will try to help create safe spaces for small Czech authors. Let's hope it helps at least a bit. [/QUOTE]

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