Question for p99 vets

[Toxigen]

Originally Posted by Seducio [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm more thinking about toward the future. The public facing p99 website and public facing p99 forum might need to become more welcoming overall if the p99 team wants to compete going forward. This includes forum moderation that isn't currently happening. P99 is no longer the only game in town.

If these forums focused more on EQ community, P1999 community, and Gaming topic only type spaces to communicate with other folks interested in p99 I would enjoy it better then it's current setup. The 10 people you mentioned might disagree with me about that though and that's ok. Some appear to use this site as a therapist or friend as best as I can tell and that is ok I guess it doesn't cost them anything. There are only a few trained medical professionals on this site though, mostly unknown because of privacy, so the exchange is more peer to peer than anything that could be described as therapeutic in a clinical sense.

Many gaming companies/orgs decide to keep their forums relatively on topic to avoid drama that can distract from the games community that is being built. P99 forums instead has a community with RnF and a percentage of Off Topic which is essentially RnF that appears wholly disconnected from the game Everquest. These forums have survived many bouts of drama and political acrimony which have turned off everyone except for the 10 people Lune mentioned. RnF doesn't seem needed anymore in the era of Social Media. Social media is designed for RnF in ways this forum could never be without major programming changes to the forums code and design.

Updating the rules and enforcing them in a transparent manner in an environment with new competitive EQ Emu servers entering the scene would encourage more people to play P1999 and feel welcome here. Currently with the competition that is now out there the marketing of this server and how it differentiates itself might matter in the future more than it appears to matter now.

With all respect to many of those here, I am more interested learning about different and cool ways to play EQ from folks/vets that have been playing it for over two decades than I am interested in debating politics with other EQ players.

I can find more appropriate venues to do that.

nobody cares hope this helps

[silo32]

This forum use to be amazing. Most moved to private channels and the good posters hurt some ones feel feels banned and retired. What's, left is the same liberal retards and social justice warriors. Been dead for years.

It's over for most bbs since discord

[Seducio]

Originally Posted by Toxigen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

nobody cares hope this helps

If you are talking about P1999 very few do and you are mostly right. If you mean RL I'd say it depends on who you are with.

[Botten]

Originally Posted by silo32 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This forum use to be amazing. Most moved to private channels and the good posters hurt some ones feel feels banned and retired. What's, left is the same liberal retards and social justice warriors. Been dead for years.

It's over for most bbs since discord

The Popular vote for president has widened in margin every election period.

But population has little meaning unless it is occurring in a more blue direction in popular conservative states.

And that is exactly what is happening. With population centers getting bigger in each of these red states they are becoming more progressive; more adaptive - more accepting.

Sorry you want to live in an unchanging society but your values aren't shared by popular opinion.

In a way your mental labels fit yourself as you in fact become less normalized. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Seducio]

Both silo32 and Botten would get their asses kicked in real life if they talked to an adult like that.

[Seducio]

Which is literally the point. Polarization means you can't think. You've been divided, you've been conquered. Trained to point fingers at each other. The moneyed elites who pay for both the Rs and the Ds love you both.

[Botten]

Both sides aren't equal and that is more of a said clique when the R side needs another do over.

The game is fun and forums are informative.

If the political talk gets out of hand then rules are enforced and some lose their soapboxes.

Are you looking to be a mod then I say go for it and apply.

[Toxigen]

id willingly go in the ring vs botten and booter 1 v 2

[Homesteaded]

Ahh yes the sane and rational Libs portray their counterparts as evil.

Meanwhile they push mutilating children and replacing actual teaching with ideological indoctrination of homosexual lifestyles.

Saying we shouldn't fund, and consume valuable time in school with this is hatful and causes actual harm.

You guys remember when TED was cool? Captured, woke nonsense now. Way to go. Same thing that happens here. Intolerant left cries and silences opposition. Toll stations await.

[Seducio]

Originally Posted by Seducio [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Trained to point fingers at each other.

My point, which doesn't seem to be connecting and that is ok, is that it seems folks posting about politics on this elf sim forum are basically giving themself dopamine hits of confirmation bias. They are expressing trained responses to trained inputs. The folks with different polarized politics respond in kind. A predictable crossfire begins. It's like a tennis match that doesn't stop but doesn't help anyone except the person who thinks they'll win the argument in that fleeting feeling of being 'right' when they hit the post button. This of course ends up looking like a trained input that will then generate the opposing sides trained input.

I don't understand why so many can't see through that.

It's informative the first few times you see the interaction if you can tease out the pattern, but overall I don't find it that informative after seeing play out again and again and again. Rather I find it as a means to figure out if a person is trapped in a particular ideology.