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251: back in my day wank meant something

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You are too immature to be running a game, specifically in the arena of moderating a community. Not every question or criticism is an attack. Your constant negative self-talk in public view of your players is disgusting. You need to step aside and do some work on yourself, instead of making your players shoulder the weight of your nasty attitude.

"Not every question or criticism is an attack. Your constant negative self-talk in public view of your players is disgusting."

these two statements being attached to a comment this hostile is really funny to me

nayrt and i understand what you're saying but i was once in a game with someone like this so i can imagine the place it comes from.

when asking "hey, are adds being done this week?" gets a mod meltdown about how hard modding is, how useless they must be at it and how they should quit rp forever because everyone hates them and their characters, players have to tiptoe and avoid asking normal questions because they're afraid of setting off the mod. i'd say exhausting instead of disgusting, but it's definitely immature.

this was years ago and not on dw so if this one is similar there are at least two mods out there acting like this. my sympathy for someone's sensitivity or insecurities ends when they start taking their bad feelings out on other people who didn't do anything wrong.

op here. I’m sorry to hear you’ve been through something similar.

I just needed to vent because I know I cannot approach this person and even say something as gentle as “that was a bit harsh” or “you’re being pretty negative” without fielding a world-shaking pity party and three days of them being too depressed to do anything, thus punishing everyone else in the game.

(And worse, this person then has a habit of going and deleting whole conversations in the discord, so you start questioning reality. “Was I being mean? No, I thought that was pretty neutral…right?” I’m pretty sure that’s actual gaslighting.)

no game could possibly be worth being psychologically manipulated over

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