Reply To: Please Change my Mind and Point of View

[jamescutts 6924xp 3]

I’ve had a few attempts too at replying to this, after a few I was going to leave it but I think its worth adding to the topic and I’ve made it a aim to contribute more.

I’m not sure intolerance is exactly the right word though I do understand the point and have a few similar concerns. I think the wider Beasts of War community is actually one of the better ones and does a great job of being a friendly place.

The forums to some extent have slightly suffered recently (in my view) as there’s tended to be a lot of in depth divisive topics posted, there’s nothing wrong with that but personally I’d love to see more positivity in the topics. There are or have been a few cases where I feel a few people have been intolerant but I think quite a lot of it is showing respect and understanding that people have differences in opinion and difference perceptions that lead them to interpret things in different ways, that doesnt mean either side is right or wrong.

Much the same applies to discord, it also suffers from another issue in that its much easier to say what’s in your head rather than consider it. It can also be hard to judge when to say something and when not too, in retrospect that can be obvious but at the time it can be hard. I’ll hold my hands up and say yes sometimes I say somethings that would be best left unsaid, that was intended at the as a subtle hint to maybe change topic and afterword’s become aware that could be interpreted and perceived as being intolerant. It wasn’t particularly intended to be having a bitch and moan about it just perhaps attempting to give feedback on the spot and maybe could have been more politely delivery but again above issue of the trap of instant chat.

The “star wars” thing I think sort of raised another point I think is related, I like star wars, I have a few legion minis, I don’t mind listening in to people talk about it. Its hard for some to join as a live event if they want to partake in it, I do get a bit annoyed when  it’s the same lenghty topic over and over again for the first hour, especially where there already existing community discussion mediums on it and I believe sometimes may make comments as mentioned above, intended to be hints and feedback to change topic but which might be seen as intolerance, again it can be hard to judge when to say something and in what context.

The point I was leading into was that our community is and should remain mindful to be respectful of our various members, there differing interests, different commitments, and even geographic locations and maybe a little extra tolerance of the later three.

Despite enjoying the pirate/unofficial cog radio I was aware that on a few cases I possibly contributed more that I should to a specific conversation or steered the conversation maybe too much where I wanted. In the same view I’m equally worried that discussions can very easy, especially in Official CoG Radio be heavily taken over by a small number of individuals and steered to their topics, interests and views, similar to some forum topics except its much harder to join into that conversation and in some cases impossible to contribute with it being an actual conversation over voice chat with strong personalities who dont really give people a change to get a word in. That certainly isn’t the case every time but its certainly happened several times and I can understand that furstration.

I mean no offence to anyone in that last paragraph, I hope it can possibly be seen as some polite criticism in the way that the chat is moderated.

In summary I don’t think our community is becoming more intolerant at least I hope not, I just think its become slightly easier to ether say something that may be interpreted or perceived as such but wasn’t intended to be. Plus I think people at still naturally a little cranky for the world being pretty screwed up to some extent and having a little tolerance of that helps too.