Omniverse Venting Thread

[Omni]

@Omni: That last bit about sometimes things not being as advertised reminds me of a time I joined a roleplay I'm gonna go ahead and not name. I always read over the rules just to make sure there's nothing in there that would really put me off or make me uncomfortable. (I could talk about some silly experiences browsing sites, but I'm sure we've all a couple of those.) Back to this specific site though. Everything looked good, no indication that I wouldn't really fit in there.

...And then I enter the site's chatroom. Now it's important to know that the site had rules. Real basic stuff that could've all been summarized as "Yo please don't be jerks to eachother." But after hanging out in that particular chatroom for a while I came to witness an alarming amount of ironic racism, really uncomfortable transphobic comments being made by a staff member towards another staff member (Not even as a joke. He was bullying the other staff member.)  and some other smaller nonsense. The head admin seemed alright and for the most part agreed when I pointed out that I felt like the rules weren't being enforced, but unfortunately we werent' able to agree on some key issues such as "Maybe we shouldn't be calling other members the N-word."

I didn't know what to say to that. They seemed to think just because they were only kidding that made it okay. The problem was, I wasn't in on the joke and I didn't really want to be in on it, so I took my leave. I don't know who that sense of humor is normal for, but it's certainly not for me personally.

Other roleplay sites make me uncomfortable for different reasons. Usually it's the sites based around shounen that tend to attract a lot of younger male members for whom using the word "nigger" is still the coolest thing since sliced bread. Then you have the opposite end of the spectrum where everyone is "pawing" each other in the chatbox and it's almost like an extreme reaction to the machismo communities. Not really surprising.

Maybe it's just because of the balanced subject matter that we avoided this. People can join as ponies or space marines, and they gotta learn to get along with the others. It's kind of ... beautiful? But there was also a lot of both of the above early on. I had to make a point of saying "yo, if you and your friends can call each other nigger and it's all in fun, that's fine, but keep it to skype/IMs" and also "hey, could you try and keep the pawing out of the chatbox" (god, that one blew up). But yeah, I remember looking at some RPGs in the "waiting period" before making the Omniverse and they were exactly as you described. Before that and before making the Omniverse, I never really thought about this kind of thing.

It's also made me really hesitant to join -any- community, because finding a lot of people you get along great with, but having to leave because of the amount of terrible people, is wrenching. It's a gradual process through which I've learned I don't like most people, and I'm not <unquantified quality>-enough to just get along and be happy.

This is totally off-topic, I'm sorry >_>