Quote:Originally posted by ztevans@Jun 2 2018, 04:24 AM


Not terribly relevant to the conversation, but that's an interesting outlook. Mostly because when the transition to Discord was happening around the time I joined the league, most of the - hmm, how to phrase this - more caustic members among us really enjoyed hating the people who were moving to Discord because it was killing the forums and gave them a "safe space" from the vitriol of the forums they enjoyed so much. So now to think those people would have retreated to Discord to avoid punishment from the thought police is, well, it's neat. Just me thinking out loud, carry on.

Eh, I would strongly disagree there. IIRC, Even as far back as when I joined teams like the Renegades had a chatzy locker room rather than one on the site for the exact reasons I described above. Maybe some of the later moves were brought upon by people like Gorlab, and I can’t say for sure where most of the blame lies. I can say for certainty that at least some of It was due to more freedom in speech though. The disconnect from the site allowed for a little more of that.

Plus I really don’t see how escaping the boards in favor of a discord available to all SHL’ers was really a good way to escape toxicity tbh. As I recall a lot of people started using It just because It was convenient on mobile. Maybe some of the more caustic members did dislike It yeah, but I don’t really think anyone thought of It as offering a “safe space” because that’s what LR’s were to begin with. And if your LR moved to discord, is that more of a safe space? A new platform with all the same members but less policing hardly makes for an effective safe space and I really find It hard to believe people saw It that way.