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Can we ban Starboard Bait completely?

This was about eight months ago. And I don't think the main discord has a starboard. Just let people express their humanity damnit, people say stupid stuff because it is funny and they may need a break from sitting around for hours. And, if you can't deal with people being people by making jokes or nonsense things and and taking it out of context specifically to make it funny then why should people bend to your whim. I get some people may really have fun being super immersed but just because you are having fun or not does not mean the rest of the server is. And as rad said, even if you don't like it people will continue to be people and it will just go into other places. And if you want people to stop doing jokes or shitposts, meaning posting them, then hard no, sense that violates the agreement of most people that we can express what makes us happy and our humanity.
 
This was about eight months ago. And I don't think the main discord has a starboard. Just let people express their humanity damnit, people say stupid stuff because it is funny and they may need a break from sitting around for hours. And, if you can't deal with people being people by making jokes or nonsense things and and taking it out of context specifically to make it funny then why should people bend to your whim. I get some people may really have fun being super immersed but just because you are having fun or not does not mean the rest of the server is. And as rad said, even if you don't like it people will continue to be people and it will just go into other places. And if you want people to stop doing jokes or shitposts, meaning posting them, then hard no, sense that violates the agreement of most people that we can express what makes us happy and our humanity.
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Same guy btw
 
Year old, and it was on some weird furry post. Last two are questionable on my part but were more of a I should have stopped talking either way.
 
Just let people express their humanity damnit, people say stupid stuff because it is funny and they may need a break from sitting around for hours.
"It's the brown fucks again!", "Hitler used to love black people", "Gay and asian, God must hate you" doesn't really seem like expressing your humanity at all. It's just people attention seeking, because they want a reaction from other people, and eventually get placed on the starboard. Starboard in general has been ruined by these type of people. I used to do this type of stuff unironically, but it's pretty simple to realise that it's super cringe.

It's not really that funny, half of these are just people making racist or homophobic comments and managing to get it slip by because it's "lol haha funny". It's completely anti-roleplay, and I'd understand cracking a funny joke in-character once in a while but the "funny jokes" now are just racism, or saying something that sounds sexual like "that thing is so big!". Just stop man.

"They may need a break from sitting around for hours" isn't really a valid excuse. If you're too tired from sitting around on Willard, then do something productive in-character or better yet, you can play something else if you are bored of playing Willard all day.
 
"It's the brown fucks again!", "Hitler used to love black people", "Gay and asian, God must hate you" doesn't really seem like expressing your humanity at all. It's just people attention seeking, because they want a reaction from other people, and eventually get placed on the starboard. Starboard in general has been ruined by these type of people. I used to do this type of stuff unironically, but it's pretty simple to realise that it's super cringe.

It's not really that funny, half of these are just people making racist or homophobic comments and managing to get it slip by because it's "lol haha funny". It's completely anti-roleplay, and I'd understand cracking a funny joke in-character once in a while but the "funny jokes" now are just racism, or saying something that sounds sexual like "that thing is so big!". Just stop man.

"They may need a break from sitting around for hours" isn't really a valid excuse. If you're too tired from sitting around on Willard, then do something productive in-character or better yet, you can play something else if you are bored of playing Willard all day.
I agree, Starboard is just pure mingebait at this point. We need to take it out back and shoot it..
 
But then you'll just have the issue of people populating other channels with the same thing.

Eh, I remember the same argument being made about that Discord channel back in 2020 until it became too much of a headache/bad look to ignore. Even if they do populate other channels, it won't get the same impact so won't be worth doing.

Take away the incentive and it doesn't become worth it. Yeah people will always make memes but you won't have an entire channel dedicated to showing arguably the most unfunny/cringe side of Willard.
 
I'm personally in agreement that starboard, whilst conceived with good intentions, has morphed into a veritable magnet for both the lampooning and promotion of frightfully substandard roleplay. I'd be ever so chuffed to see starboard bait given the old heave-ho, personally.
 
Give it the boot.

Perhaps crack down more on poor roleplay as well. There is nothing more immersion breaking then John Citizen or John Metrocop dropping shitty one-liners about whatever unfunny thing people in the setting wouldn't be saying.
 
On an unironic note I have started a discussion thread with the moderation team as to how we should go about clear starboard bait as there are valid points given from all people in this discussion.
 
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