25-03-2025, 11:58 PM
I personally prefer if ALL IC is kept off Discord, simply because I think we already struggle as a community to distinguish IC actions from OOC actions and Discord is very susceptible to that problem, specifically.
I also think that allowing IC content to happen on Discord will further contribute to the speeding up of a game that I still think should be slowing down. I am not personally persuaded by the "efficiency" argument. Discord has been and can be used for OOC coordination, and that can be as efficient as you want it to be. Why does the IC part have to happen in real time? When this breaks down today, and players are slower to respond ICly on the forum than others might like them to be, it often quickly goes to what I consider bullying - specific players have often been ridiculed for not posting, and accused of IC motivations for OOC busy-ness. I can only imagine that would get worse if it weren't a once-every-few-days forum post that people want from them, but a once-every-few-minutes Discord RP.
I also don't agree with Luis' statement that it would be easy access. With forum RP (and the lower volume it implies) it's already hard enough to keep up with IC events given the speed of the game clock and just the number of players bouncing around. If I have to also try to keep up with several hundred-post long IC conversations I'm really going to struggle.
I also think that allowing IC content to happen on Discord will further contribute to the speeding up of a game that I still think should be slowing down. I am not personally persuaded by the "efficiency" argument. Discord has been and can be used for OOC coordination, and that can be as efficient as you want it to be. Why does the IC part have to happen in real time? When this breaks down today, and players are slower to respond ICly on the forum than others might like them to be, it often quickly goes to what I consider bullying - specific players have often been ridiculed for not posting, and accused of IC motivations for OOC busy-ness. I can only imagine that would get worse if it weren't a once-every-few-days forum post that people want from them, but a once-every-few-minutes Discord RP.
I also don't agree with Luis' statement that it would be easy access. With forum RP (and the lower volume it implies) it's already hard enough to keep up with IC events given the speed of the game clock and just the number of players bouncing around. If I have to also try to keep up with several hundred-post long IC conversations I'm really going to struggle.