Just read faster 
imagine going out of the way to destroy a community by literally banning fucking activity and then instantly banning every single FM thread, even the ones that don’t and didn’t violate the rules
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I mean a couple of people had posts that tripped the profanity filter but … that’s also true of basically every person on the site…
We only had one “problem” player (out of roughly a hundred) and it’s debatable whether they actually broke any site rules
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man I came from a discussion forum and on heated debates we would get 3 pages in a hour just with 2 people discussing and each post with 2 paragraphs
look this site’s playerbase is drying up
giving a mass injection of a whole site’s playerbase would bring us back to life
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also religion/lgbt ones but their posts had 1-paragraph ± each post and they were also way cringier
which means that I get to do amoral bastard expirments on people who don’t know better
ahahhahahahhahaha!
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And then deleting threads from an ongoing game (that hadn’t broken any rules) rather than just locking them
which means it is the perfect opportunity to present myself as a respectablue human being ahahhahahahhahaha!
This is only sort of a joke
I’ve never had any trouble keeping up with threads (whether or not I was in them) so I don’t really buy this excuse
maybe I’m typicalminding but
If you spend a shitton of time, sure.
If you are a mod who doesnt care for FM but has to check your whole thread, cuz it was flagged so many times, its hell.
If I were 20 percent pettier and 50 percent less worried about making us look bad I would get some of the people there to have long, thoughtful, productive, on-topic discussions and then report the posts for producing 16 minutes worth of content in a single day
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it’s not the actual rules that are the issue, it’s the fact they were foisted on the community without even consulting them
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that unwillingness to work out a solution with a small but active and dedicated subset of your community because they annoy you somehow is worth criticising
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anyway I should probably get back to writing my novel but I’m experiencing Writer’s Anxiety™ about the introduction of my new character
i feel an urge to make them non-binary but i’m struggling to find natural words to introduce them
for context, they’re human, because I’m not in the mood to handwave issues like that by making non-binary characters aliens
i could do a much better job introducing an aromantic/asexual character for… obvious reasons, but I already have an aroace character and quite frankly non-binary folks need the damn representation, even if it’s from a book that i’m writing for the sake of it
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because for context i’ve saddled myself with a framing device where the character writing the narrative is from the same time period, so I’m trying to figure out how to explain being non-binary in a society where said identity is already Reasonably™ accepted without coming across as exposit-y and preachy.
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