What do you look for in your FC when you consider joining a new one?

[Makeda]

Also, on this note, I cringe when I see FC recruitment ads,stating that the FC "is friendly,social,will be your second family, LGBTQ inclusive..."

Like duh, is there an FC out there that thinks,"Gee, it would be great to be exclusionary anti-social a-holes"

6. So this is more of a personal gripe and perhaps an age thing but I often see FCs advertise themselves as for "mature people,18+, who like to make adult jokes from time to time".

Often this translates to, chat/Discord is mostly going to be filled with NSFW stuff. If a FC's collective maturity and humour revolve mainly around NSFW stuff, that's a red flag for me.

On the first part I quoted; yeah they do exist but FCs full of bigotry don’t advertise it and often refuse to believe that making racist or gay bashing comments all day long in their discord is actually bigoted. They just call you a snowflake, and complain about how unfair it is that people don’t like bigots anymore... and eventually you leave them...

You get:
Dude says a list of racist stuff...
You say, hey dude is racist and needs to be dealt with.
They say; that’s not nice to accuse people that say your RL race should be “dealt with” of racism, you should stop being a snowflake.
So you think... which of us is actually being a snowflake there? If dude can’t handle being called out for his hate...


Left an FC a few weeks ago for all that...

On the second point yeah. If they advertise “mature” it pretty much means they aren’t. I used to only join mature guilds in MMOs but found all kinds of stupid going on. I kept thinking “this is good because I don’t have to be wary of kids misbehaving”...
Then I happened to join a family friendly guild and found... people were nicer and the “kids” better behaved than the “mature” people had been... since then in various games I find if I look for family friendly they’re actually nicer and less problematic...