EX-Balmung Players of the Mass Stormblood Exodus - Where are they now?!

[reiichi]

As for the toxicity in the RP community, most of it is from what I hear from other people, but I haven't experienced it myself since I not deep within the RP circles. I do know that there is a "No Mod" places on the HRPC forums which is pretty much a toxic pit where people can dish out all the dirt, throw shade and be extremely salty at people. Most of the toxicity that I have experienced on Balmung usually involves Lalafell hate. And while I did have many people who told me that most of what is said is meant to be humorous, funny and a joke, I'm not the one who is laughing.

Hey. Staff member of the RPC here. The forum former called "No Mod's Land" is actually one of our more enforced sections, oddly enough. User have to specifically opt-in with a manual group membership in a settings page that isn't immediately accessible in the User CP. From there, only users who have posted inside the section can be called out. In this sense, it's more locked down than someone having a massive tumblr rampage calling people out, linking [possibly fake] screenshots, or tagging people.

If someone is named who hasn't opted in/posted, the post[s] are removed and the involved users are moderated. It's a venting zone, just like any other social media. It's certainly got its issues, but it also fulfilled its purpose of keeping the main sections of the board primarily on topic with less shitposting and less drama. At this point, it's also been pretty dead aside from the standard shitpost that could otherwise exist in our Off-Topic board. It's also not planned to be migrated over to our new site layout, due out when we can finish some server work and coding.

If anything, I've found much worse words said in game, in linkshells, and on tumblr.

[Niraves]

Most of the toxicity that I have experienced on Balmung usually involves Lalafell hate. And while I did have many people who told me that most of what is said is meant to be humorous, funny and a joke, I'm not the one who is laughing.

This is, unfortunately, all too common on every realm. I've had to blacklist people before because they wouldn't stop making nasty comments about my character because shes a Lalafell.

It's gotten so bad that I pretty much immediately blacklist anyone who makes Lala 'jokes' around me.