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<blockquote data-quote="PaulofCthulhu" data-source="post: 4028023">Fourth edition Dungeons &amp; Dragons isn't heading in a way that I personally like (to be honest my favourites remain 1st ed. AD&amp;D &amp; prior - and whatever it is, is pretty much set in stone by now), but critiques can still be discussed in a civilised manner.Internet forums can be a bit wild West, and moderation is often more of an art than a science, often a difficult one at that. So I can sympathise with mods. &amp; admins. I've been doing it for 12 years. It's all done on volunteer time and goodwill.By way of increasing civil behaviour it seems to go:Internet forums - anonymityEmail - less anonymityPhone - I'm communicating with a real personIn person - They might hit me, etc.The first two also remove voice inflection and body language and the first three - voice inflection,&nbsp; so lots of room for mis-understandings to boot. Ho hum.The point to this meander: From experience, if one keeps one's arguments/point of view civil and doesn't use pejorative language I would imagine that you're less likely to end up on any ban list, possibly.As for how D&amp;D players are portrayed to the general public, I believe that Mark Barrowcliffe's book The Elfish Gene is going to raise some hackles when it's published in the US as it already has in the UK.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PaulofCthulhu, post: 4028023"] Fourth edition [i]Dungeons & Dragons[/i] isn't heading in a way that I personally like (to be honest my favourites remain 1st ed. [i]AD&D[/i] & prior - and whatever it is, is pretty much set in stone by now), but critiques can still be discussed in a civilised manner. Internet forums can be a bit wild West, and moderation is often more of an art than a science, often a difficult one at that. So I can sympathise with mods. & admins. I've been doing it for 12 years. It's all done on volunteer time and goodwill. By way of increasing civil behaviour it seems to go: Internet forums - anonymity Email - less anonymity Phone - I'm communicating with a real person In person - They might hit me, etc. The first two also remove voice inflection and body language and the first three - voice inflection, so lots of room for mis-understandings to boot. Ho hum. The point to this meander: From experience, if one keeps one's arguments/point of view civil and doesn't use pejorative language I would imagine that you're less likely to end up on any ban list, possibly. As for how [i]D&D[/i] players are portrayed to the general public, I believe that Mark Barrowcliffe's book [i]The Elfish Gene[/i] is going to raise some hackles when it's published in the US as it already has in the UK. [/QUOTE]

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