Quote Originally Posted by Goji1639 View Post
You're a little too hung up on semantics. No one actually thinks that every single person in this, or any community is toxic. It's ALWAYS a minority.

Problem is the FFXIV community has been trying to sell itself as being different; the exception to the rule that online games have these pervasive toxic elements. It may be a minority, but this WAS still large scale targeted harassment. The majority denouncing stuff like this is what would/should happen in any online game, but FFXIV undeniably has a strong toxic element same as any other online community. It's community is not different and it's not better.
If it's always a minority then maybe people should stop taking on a crusade that the community is toxic. It's a behavior akin to, if not worse than the 'evangelists', and I don't mean because toxicity doesn't exist. I mean because those trying to show otherwise blatantly know exactly why this is poor etiquette and practice to do in general. Simple as that.

You see this is where my issue comes into play, much as they are trying to sell the community as being this perfect paradise without issues, there are people here doing the exact same from a negative side of the coin. Both are disingenuously painting. Both are hyperbolic. Both should know better. Of course, this would be large-scale. He's a streamer that generates tens of thousands of views each stream, I don't think the following there was there just with the exclusive intent of harassing him. Just leave them alone and stop doing the exact same thing that they're doing (Ref; evangelists). -- Granted I'm more directing this to a larger audience and not you exclusively.

It's at least nice to converse/debate with you, especially on better pretenses than last time. I think I've spent enough of my time in this cesspit, however.