Quote Originally Posted by Zanarkand-Ronso View Post
If you think or feel discussion is being stifled by a silly little meme/joke/troll, it makes me wonder if you even care about the discussion, since your attention is on that picture.

The default action should be to ignore it. Maybe laugh if you humor in it...but it shouldnt be to get all defensive and derail the conversation to combat an insignificant shitpost
When we already have enough shitposting to worry about with lore discussion, it gets old extremely quickly. Especially because it can always be chalked off as “a little joke” when in reality it might not have even been that. Typically people use “it was just a joke” as a defensive mechanism when they’re called out on something. There are people that truly believe some genuine posts are trolls because they can’t fathom there being criticism for the game. I’m not sure how you gather that someone not wanting an off topic meme or “joke” in a discussion thread equates to not caring about the discussion. There’s other topics for you to joke around in, a discussion thread typically isn’t one of them. This is one of the problems that’s been rampant on this forum lately. It’s strange that it’s typically only done in criticism threads though is my point. Which is why i brought up the stifling discussion. It seems like people only ever post it in hopes of just writing off any form of criticism as trolling. That’s completely counterproductive for criticism.