Goonhub
05-01-2020, 04:03 PM
I guess I'll take the opportunity to circle back around on something I said on page one in this thread:
The main thing I was trying to get at, here, is that we have issues, but those issues aren't totally political in nature. The problem stems directly from the personal attacks and hostility that have been displayed in all sorts of different conversations; game balance, sharing round stories, code, whatever.
And yes, there is a problem. Nobody is feigning ignorance of there being a problem. Pretty much every admin response here has been "Yes, there is a problem, BUT, politics isn't it." And we're committed to fixing that problem:
We have new admin guidelines, voted in unanimously, which in several instances explicitly addresses these issues.
We have mediators, who are working hard to try to deescalate arguments as they happen, and have committed to helping people resolve conflicts in a way that we hope to alleviate some of this pain.
We have stepped up enforcement of Discord Rules, especially rule 2.
We are doing our best. I haven't been interested in addressing this thread so far, after those first few posts, mostly because I sorta decided that arguing about it ad nauseam wasn't going to help anyone. We needed to do something. We're doing something.
I'm sorry that things seem to be moving slow, but these things don't change overnight. I'm sorry that we haven't said much, but it's hard to know what to say.
Quote:We should be focusing on the parts of these conversations that actually cause harm, and not "politics"
The main thing I was trying to get at, here, is that we have issues, but those issues aren't totally political in nature. The problem stems directly from the personal attacks and hostility that have been displayed in all sorts of different conversations; game balance, sharing round stories, code, whatever.
And yes, there is a problem. Nobody is feigning ignorance of there being a problem. Pretty much every admin response here has been "Yes, there is a problem, BUT, politics isn't it." And we're committed to fixing that problem:
We have new admin guidelines, voted in unanimously, which in several instances explicitly addresses these issues.
We have mediators, who are working hard to try to deescalate arguments as they happen, and have committed to helping people resolve conflicts in a way that we hope to alleviate some of this pain.
We have stepped up enforcement of Discord Rules, especially rule 2.
We are doing our best. I haven't been interested in addressing this thread so far, after those first few posts, mostly because I sorta decided that arguing about it ad nauseam wasn't going to help anyone. We needed to do something. We're doing something.
I'm sorry that things seem to be moving slow, but these things don't change overnight. I'm sorry that we haven't said much, but it's hard to know what to say.