Quote Originally Posted by Odstarva View Post
Can someone explain what toxic positivity means?
Or rather, use an example of what toxic positivity looks like in-game?
Let's say you're in a raid, right? Maybe you're trying to get your weeklies or whatever. Hell, it can even be a dungeon. I've seen this happen multiple times across every kind of content you could think of.
So there you are, and you're DPSing, and maybe the tank just doesn't turn on his tank stance. If it's a dungeon, maybe he's pulled a pack of trash without his stance. If it's a raid, maybe the MT died and now he (OT) doesn't have his stance on. Either way, the aggro is on you and you're a DPS, so this isn't an ideal situation. And you tell him to turn it on, because now you're tanking as a dps. But he ignores you and just does his own thing. Aaand now you're dead. And now the other DPS is dead too. And now the healers are dying. And you wipe. You zone back in at the start, and nobody says anything because everyone's afraid to be critical due to the ToS. The guy who died second is like "let's just try again! )" and the problem isn't actually addressed. And maybe -- maybe it happens again, the whole damn thing, point for point, and now someone finally says "dude, OT, turn on your stance so we don't keep wiping" or "MT, stop dying to [mechanic]" and now someone else chimes in with "calm down bro it's just a game dw bro just have fun " and straight up enables bad play that's wasting everyone's time.

Or maybe you get one of those healers who just spams Cure1 and nothing else, and maybe it's actually a detriment because you're in some level 90 content where better play is expected. Maybe it affects your ability to enjoy the content, so you say something like "hey have you considered using other tools in your kit besides the option you get at level 2?" and their friend who queued in with them is like "just let them enjoy the game! " even though their method of enjoyment is ruining the game for everyone else who has to put up with it.

Or maybe you queue alliance raid roulette and you get into crystal tower, again, and you look over and see a guy who's naked and rapidly putting on his gear. Someone else sees this too, and when the duty loads and there're no new players, he exclaims sarcastically, "thanks for queuing naked and getting us the same crystal tower raid for the 30th day in a row" and another guy chimes in with "it's ok ) just a game dont be so upset "

Basically any time you have a valid complaint, there's always some smiling enabler there to defend bad shit that negatively impacts everyone else. These people are positive, but it's a positive force used to encourage toxic behavior that pushes people out of the game when it happens often enough. Because eventually you get sick of Cure1 bots. Eventually you get sick of shitty tanks. Eventually you get tired of syrcus tower every day. And then you quit.