The bullying on these forums is concerning

[LianaThorne]

Do people really get this bent out of shape over their "reputation" in an online game? This is why I don't touch RP venues anymore with a ten foot pole. Wild community.

[Remish]

Do people really get this bent out of shape over their "reputation" in an online game? This is why I don't touch RP venues anymore with a ten foot pole. Wild community.

I use to be someone who didn't care about reputation a few years ago. I did whatever I wanted, as I wanted. Said what I wanted as I felt. I was very careless and had no tact. And really it felt pretty liberating to not care about my rep. However, over time I found that it would cost me. I won't go into detail about what had happened to me because this isn't the place for it. However, I will say the outcome was that when it came to wanting to join statics, get into streaming, engage with discord communities, join FCs, or do just about anything. People didn't want to socialize with me or have anything to do with because of how I was behaving. It eventually hit me that I made some dire mistakes and should have been more mindful about my actions and behavior in the past. So yes, I can honestly say that people do worry about their reputation because depending on what you want out of life, it does matter. And you might not find out for years that you should have taken better care of it.

[LianaThorne]

I use to be someone who didn't care about reputation a few years ago. I did whatever I wanted, as I wanted. Said what I wanted as I felt. I was very careless and had no tact. And really it felt pretty liberating to not care about my rep. However, over time I found that it would cost me. I won't go into detail about what had happened to me because this isn't the place for it. However, I will say the outcome was that when it came to wanting to join statics, get into streaming, engage with discord communities, join FCs, or do just about anything. People didn't want to socialize with me or have anything to do with because of how I was behaving. It eventually hit me that I made some dire mistakes and should have been more mindful about my actions and behavior in the past. So yes, I can honestly say that people do worry about their reputation because depending on what you want out of life, it does matter. And you might not find out for years that you should have taken better care of it.

I can't really speak on this without knowing context. I could say it's very unfair that people are holding grudges for this long but I don't know what it is that you did. All I know is that I've made my own share of mistakes and simply switching servers alleviated those because it was an entirely new group of people. Then again, I've also had no desire to have my life under a microscope in the way streamers do so.....no money or popularity in the world would make me want to give up my privacy and the ability to make mistakes.

[Rolder50]

Do people really get this bent out of shape over their "reputation" in an online game? This is why I don't touch RP venues anymore with a ten foot pole. Wild community.

The drama I have seen from RP and RP adjacent communities is definitely some of the wildest I have seen in any game. Pretty fun to watch from a safe distance though.