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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kobold Boots" data-source="post: 7474254" data-attributes="member: 92239">That's one way to go about it.  Certainly face to face is better than gossiping on a message board.Still there's not much to go into details about on my end.  The example pretty much calls out what happened or what could have happened in the last one.  Root cause of all of it was my own sillyness in opening my home to folks and not considering the potential for nonsense I was exposing myself to.  At the time my group was huge (20 ish if everyone showed up) and no store in my area could accommodate that; but the house could.I don't blame people for being who they are, I blame myself for being too naive.Live and learn(Edit - What I will share though is that when you've gone through stuff like this you need to be careful what you put in your Session 0 documentation or adverts for new players.I can tell you from personal experience - again really naive at that time - that telling people you're looking for folks that have an appreciation for etiquette and are looking for people more in line with your own socio-economic status and place in life is a bad idea.  You will get vitriol, people will threaten you via online post and email and they will go out of their way to send your post to everyone in the gaming community to tell others they should stay away from your game... and then freak the hell out when they fail to realize they did it from an email account tied to their work, their work is a game store, and you show up to apologize and explain yourself ..  no one expects to be called on their bad behavior in response to your bad behavior and when they've behaved poorly, along with whatever image they have of you in their head;  they don't expect you to behave well.I still don't go to a particularly well known store in the Boston area since that incident and it's been 15 years.  I was really inelegant and straight up dumb to post the way I did; and incorrectly thought I was fine because I wasn't discriminating against race, gender or orientation but the response was over the top. - No one needs that.)Ramble ramble ramble.  Feel better now that that's finally off my chest.KB</blockquote>

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