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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8528032" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>I am not advocating dismissing people’s claims. I am saying we always get any claim to see if it is reasonable and true. Not because most people are lying but because when you automatically grant truth to any claim like this, you create a tool for bad actors to exploit (and there are always going to malicious people in the world who will lie about things). If you grant this to every claim you risk exaggerating something that isn’t a problem into a problem. And if you grant truth yo every explanation of the problem, you risk oversimplifying the solution, even solving it counter productively. Now none of that means you dismiss people’s pain, none of that should be a license to kick [edit: mock] people, and none of that means there aren’t problems that need solving. But solving a problem means, accurately determining if it is a problem, gauging yo what extent,&nbsp; accurately diagnosing it, and finding an explanation or explanations to solve it. I think I’m these conversations, flaws in some of these lead yo more problems and lead to exaggeration if problems. All that said: the game store problem is one I 100 percent agree with. There are lots of reasons it is a problem but it is one of the main reasons I don’t hand in game stores. I think a lot of it comes down to social awkwardness around women among male gamers, and less yo do with malicious intent, but it is very easy to see (and just about every woman who wasn’t a gamer I have taken to a game store, has made this complaint yo me. So don’t get me wrong: I am not saying dismiss everything. But in these threads the problems tend yo be much less concrete: issues around things like evil orcs, old tropes in a new context, use of cultural tropes, debates about safety tools, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8528032, member: 85555"] I am not advocating dismissing people’s claims. I am saying we always get any claim to see if it is reasonable and true. Not because most people are lying but because when you automatically grant truth to any claim like this, you create a tool for bad actors to exploit (and there are always going to malicious people in the world who will lie about things). If you grant this to every claim you risk exaggerating something that isn’t a problem into a problem. And if you grant truth yo every explanation of the problem, you risk oversimplifying the solution, even solving it counter productively. Now none of that means you dismiss people’s pain, none of that should be a license to kick [edit: mock] people, and none of that means there aren’t problems that need solving. But solving a problem means, accurately determining if it is a problem, gauging yo what extent, accurately diagnosing it, and finding an explanation or explanations to solve it. I think I’m these conversations, flaws in some of these lead yo more problems and lead to exaggeration if problems. All that said: the game store problem is one I 100 percent agree with. There are lots of reasons it is a problem but it is one of the main reasons I don’t hand in game stores. I think a lot of it comes down to social awkwardness around women among male gamers, and less yo do with malicious intent, but it is very easy to see (and just about every woman who wasn’t a gamer I have taken to a game store, has made this complaint yo me. So don’t get me wrong: I am not saying dismiss everything. But in these threads the problems tend yo be much less concrete: issues around things like evil orcs, old tropes in a new context, use of cultural tropes, debates about safety tools, etc. [/QUOTE]

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