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Originally Posted by Squire
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Ah as I read that I could tell you had not played red here and made the same misconceptions that many do here. Let me begin by saying of course the vocal minority of Forumquesters created a level of toxicity which was newbie unfriendly, we as a community have to be accountable for that but to insinuate that mean spirited banter is the only issue that plagued red is being myopic.
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While I didn't mean to suggest Red had only one problem or only one cause of it's problems, it does have a single
core problem: low population. I honestly don't know if the toxic community is the biggest factor contributing to it or not, I just know that Red will have a very hard (maybe impossible) time reaching sustainable population as long as the community remains as toxic as it is. It's just hard to add people to the server when they keep leaving because they got repeatedly killed by de-leveled griefers, were offended by the talk in OOC, or were horrified by the "the vocal minority of Forumquesters."
There's nothing wrong with pontificating about how much better the server would be with this rule added or that rule removed. But none of those suggestions (that I've heard) in any way address the toxic community problem. The simple fact is that a lot of Red players live for schadenfreude (although I'm sure a lot are also like Swish; not trying to paint the whole server as toxic). Those people scare (many) people who aren't like them away from the server, and this limits the server's potential population. Whether or not that's the only problem, it seems like one that must be addressed if Red is ever going to succeed, so I just wish I saw more talk about how to solve it.