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Heroic Knight
 
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Ok, despite the fear of becoming a victim of this phenomenon, I still want to ask this question.... I'm a trader, a player, have been an organiser and still 20 years on I love LARP and most of the associated subjects, including my belief that the hobby and industry in general has incredible potential etc etc.... HOWEVER.... as I commented on another board last week: "I have heard many people tar forums as places for extreme opinions... not quite as friendly.. which to me is strange as in over 20 years playing the game I have never met an unfriendly larper... just one or two numpties  "
I thought I'd ask the same question on various boards and since rule7 is one of the larger ones may as well put one here as well. Basically 97% of customer I speak too, simply say when asked, forums scare them away.... i.e you cant ask a simple question without quite often getting flamed or being made feel like an idiot.... I know there were lots of conversations with regards Fluffy vs. non Fluffy when pagga, switched off but I wonder, do members of "this" forum care about the growth of the hobby in the UK ???
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Prodigal
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| Forums are fine Some of the people who use the forums on the other hand..... I think it is a case that there are some numpties, and people who are often not "socially adept" might find it even more difficult to communicate well, or with a degree of empathy, on a forum board. I've known a few LRPers who seem to be utterly insensitive to other peoples opinions and feelings. Not from maliciousness, just from inability. The same goes for posting on boards Rule 7 is alright though 
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Champion
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| Forums are like other areas of the internet, anyone whos ever done any online gamming knows that it seems to be filled 99% with people with a mental atitued of 12, why? because they don't had to say it to your face. Its easier to be harsh, rude, objectional etc because there is a degree of anonymity, no ones going to punch and where in normal life people would just think what at twat walk a way and have there conversation some where else its alot harder. And so while forums can be imformative open discussion groups he who shouts the loudest and says hte most outragiouse thing gets the attention. But i think they are useful Edit:It can be hard to get across emotion on forums missunderstandings/interpritations are easy and also where a comment in real life may just attract 1 rebuke on a forum each person will take a turn so a small matter could become 10 posts.
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Heroic Knight
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Well... I've said some dodgy things and asked some ropey questions in my time, and I've been shouted down or had to fight my corner from time to time, and I admit I did once drive a new member off the old Pagga boards by knocked everything he said (but he was soooo wrong all the time!). Anyway, its true people can be dicks on forums, and its mostly because of the lost social interaction of a conversation, when you talk to someone its a lot of non-verbal communication.
Anyway, my point is I can't see that stopping. Its not just Rule7, or LRP forums, its most of them. The best I can offer is to say "so what" if someone badmouths you. At the end of the day its an internet forum about live roleplay, it doesn't get much more geek, niche or unimportant in the great scheme of things.
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Heroic Knight
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| Just to make clear I meant forums in general, I'm not having a poke at rule7. I personally feel there is a huge value in forums in general... its where the greatest ideas get shared and where many new systems and enterprises have been born. To me that can only be good..
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Knight
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I've spent a fair bit of time on forums for various interest groups, and they're nearly all the same - nasty. Only exception I have found is one for Homebrewing, and I have heard knitting forums are pretty calm and friendly  . My local Freecycle list even has rows blazing across it, FFS. People go online and behave like prats, because there's no come back - most forums you don't even have to have your email addy displayed, so nobody can 'get' you except on the forum itself.
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elrohana (7/12/2008)
I've spent a fair bit of time on forums for various interest groups, and they're nearly all the same - nasty. Only exception I have found is one for Homebrewing, and I have heard knitting forums are pretty calm and friendly . My local Freecycle list even has rows blazing across it, FFS. People go online and behave like prats, because there's no come back - most forums you don't even have to have your email addy displayed, so nobody can 'get' you except on the forum itself.
Which is why we had that huge row about anonymous posting on Pagga way back when...
PD - Brother Farael of the Ordo Dictum Dominus
EOS - Some Raggard Scum, previously Some Arimin Scum
6P - System creator (now retired), Andrei Treune of Clan Suner (for the moment)
RL - Will Robinson
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Champion
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I think a frew of the threads that are up the top of "General" at the moment would be better placed in "Academia".
Then the "LRP Isn't Art" crew wouldn't have to see them at all....
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