What would you roleplay?

[Jonathan Meer]

Well there was that thing back in late 2010 which lead to this. There was also this thing back in July. All were very constructive discussions. Two of those are still on the first page of RPG Discussion.

The first doesn't approach consensus. The second involved something that was prohibitively difficult to implement, programmatically.

Some things did come out of that first link, though (community grading, particularly).

Like I said, not trying to bash the admins for not having brought it about because people have lives. But Jon, saying the staff have done everything on their end is ... well I don't know if you've just forgotten these threads, or whether you think there needs to be a 100% consensus before staff can do anything. You're never going to get a 100% consensus. That's why we have presidents and prime ministers and admins, so ultimately after everyone has made their opinions clear they can say "aight guys this is what i'm gonna do".

This is the issue with paraphrasing someone you're arguing against: there's a good chance you'll get what they wrote dead wrong. I never said 'staff have done everything on their end.' My argument is that the impetus is not on us. People aren't writing, even when we introduce brand new, sweeping game mechanics.

I mean seriously, after those threads up top I am absolutely mind-boggled that you can make threads like this and want people to reach a consensus ... again. Spoiler alert: we already did that, nothing happened.

I wrote 'Just curious' as the body of that topic because I was just curious. Deriving some sort of intent from that topic is a mistake.