Mx.Trinity
Pro Stranger
Warning! This may contain content that roleplayers may find upsetting, read at your own discretion!
So I'll go first since it just came to mind.
[WORST] I was part of a gaming community for a while (even donated) and had been giving constructive criticism to the people I had considered friends for a while and shortly after that they all started roasting me to the point where they convinced the whole community to take part in it, it got pretty excessive after that they all started treating me a lot differently. Whenever I'd post or reply someone would downvote what I had to say, and slowly but surely it got to the point where I couldn't play in the server without community members harassing me over mic.
Still to this day I don't understand why they turned on me the way they did. Their server sort of ended when they made a 15 year old really mad who hired a pretty skilled hacker who held their website/game server ransom for money, hacked other members of the community, and even threatened to swat some of them. Ever since, the server hasn't had very many players.
[BEST] I would say the most positive community experience I've ever had was actually made here on a discord server. I had been struggling with a lot of self identity disconnect due to amnesia for a while and because of that I was really sensitive and unpredictable. After getting into a fight with two of my closest friends on RPN I was forced to find something else to do and stumbled across a few roleplayers who seemed really awesome. Cut forward 2-3 months I now am closer to everyone in this group than anyone else on the site. I can actually just relax and be myself around them and it's really been a life changing experience. I feel more like myself than I ever have before... I know that can be scary for some but... it's a really powerful feeling.
So what are your worst/best community experiences? And how did they affect your life?
So I'll go first since it just came to mind.
[WORST] I was part of a gaming community for a while (even donated) and had been giving constructive criticism to the people I had considered friends for a while and shortly after that they all started roasting me to the point where they convinced the whole community to take part in it, it got pretty excessive after that they all started treating me a lot differently. Whenever I'd post or reply someone would downvote what I had to say, and slowly but surely it got to the point where I couldn't play in the server without community members harassing me over mic.
Still to this day I don't understand why they turned on me the way they did. Their server sort of ended when they made a 15 year old really mad who hired a pretty skilled hacker who held their website/game server ransom for money, hacked other members of the community, and even threatened to swat some of them. Ever since, the server hasn't had very many players.
[BEST] I would say the most positive community experience I've ever had was actually made here on a discord server. I had been struggling with a lot of self identity disconnect due to amnesia for a while and because of that I was really sensitive and unpredictable. After getting into a fight with two of my closest friends on RPN I was forced to find something else to do and stumbled across a few roleplayers who seemed really awesome. Cut forward 2-3 months I now am closer to everyone in this group than anyone else on the site. I can actually just relax and be myself around them and it's really been a life changing experience. I feel more like myself than I ever have before... I know that can be scary for some but... it's a really powerful feeling.
So what are your worst/best community experiences? And how did they affect your life?