Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-24325144-20141001194150/@comment-3293219-20141002224634

I still don't see it as the same thing though, to answer your first point, I honestly don't see that happen. Maybe it's just because I don't spend much time in chat or maybe my RP community was just 'special' but I never had that problem where fights would ever leave their original threads.

We had one user who would often start arguments but they were often talked down, because we discussed things, in all of my memories as an RPer the only thing that got out of hand was where a thread closed early and the guy went crying to a semi-active admin, who didn't even care and just shrugged it off. Maybe some of the less mature RPers have handled things that way but Harold's group and my group have always taken care of our own problems and I don't think that the 'bad apples' should ruin it for us, when we've done a good job of containing it.

Second of all, that analogy still doesn't help, it still is sounding even more like a very familiar scenario. Now, I know that we agreed to not talk about political events, I hate it when people compare real life tragedies to internet drama and well, I personally loathe myself for having to actually say it and prove Godwin's law right but.

That speech, about the dead cat? Think of it this way, your countries economy is in the crapper but don't worry but if you use a somewhat small percentage of the population of the country to use as scape goats, strip them of their rights and have them all executed on mass and it will improve the economy and make all of the important citizens happy.

I'm not saying this to be controversial but I seriously don't think that I'm being over dramatic, when I say that we're being used as a scape-goat in the vain hope that our sacrifice will bring you sunshine and rainbows. That's how I see it, that's how it reads back to me and honestly, it generally feels like we are being almost demonised as an illness, rotten but above all, we're the lesser members who can afford to lose out. Even though I, for example, have been here for a year and have posted to this wiki every day, contributing to it (again, I know that it's not the part that people like but I have made 20,000 contributions to this site) and this really does feel like a punishment for something that I've dedicated a year of my life to.

I can see this this could go on for a while, so I'm going to say that I'm not really looking for a length debate, I'm only asking for you to think on it from this perspective. It's all well and good, talking about the 'greater good' but it's hard to look at the 'big picture,' when you aren't in it, because you're being processed at the glue factory.