Personal Feelings on TBT and recent negativity-- how to fix.

This website, for me, hasn't been the same since the whole cycling incident happened. People were so rude to the cyclers, and it was really 100% unnecessary. It could have been handled better, but people just wanted to put others down and called each other rude names. Some people who I called my friends left the website.
It's also part of the reason I don't really play anymore. :/

In this respect yes, this is true, although some of the cyclers were horrible to the moderators too so its 2 of one and half a dozen of the other.
 
I wasn't really aware of the Cycling stuff, I tended to avoid it since to this day I'm still confused as to what it is. It just doesn't make much of any sense to me.
 
I wasn't really aware of the Cycling stuff, I tended to avoid it since to this day I'm still confused as to what it is. It just doesn't make much of any sense to me.

It refers to the 16 villagers cycle. You can't have the same villager after they move out until you've had 16 other villagers move out. This forces them out of the the void and mainstreet pools and allows you to get the villager again. Cycling simply involves efficiently moving villagers in and out. Cyclers sometimes do it for free, other times the don't.
 
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It refers to the 16 villagers cycle. You can't have the same villager after they move out until you've had 16 other villagers move out. This forces them out of the the void and mainstream pools and allows you to get the villager again. Cycling simply involves efficiently moving villagers in and out. Cyclers sometimes do it for free, other times the don't.

Yeah I never understood having preferred villagers. I like surprises.
 
Yeah I never understood having preferred villagers. I like surprises.

Oh, and Jamie, baby.

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Mafia can make people...salty. A few months ago I joined the irc, but felt really left out due to cliques and stuff. But I started to be more open and add to conversations and just butt in randomly. And then I joined Mumble. Mumble was really nice and the people there,(Olive, Ashtot) welcomed me in. Although most people on irc probs wouldn't acknowledge me as their friend I kinda think we are friends. I do notice the cliques but I've never really noticed anyone really rude.
 
Most of the time, when I see that people are having a hard time connecting in the IRC, it's because they don't make too much of an effort, although it's not always like this. I've seen a couple people downright ignored which is pretty rude. There is an old saying that goes like this: "You can't bake a cake without all the ingredients". Basically, if someone wants to be included then they need to make an effort themselves to be included, AND, some of us IRC vets need to help them out as well. I generally make sure to welcome new people, and PM them to see if they have questions, and to reassure them because IRC can be really intimidating for some people, so if you guys want to help, that is definitely a good way.

As for the general negativity going on lately. Honestly, as much as I hate to blame Mafia for the negativity, I do think it is mostly because of it that some people are being so negative. Regardless of what we think, it rubs off on all of us, even in the slightest. Although, some people take it to farther extremes, we all need to be careful and keep what happens in Mafia, in it's place, and even tone down the way we can act in Mafia to begin with, because it gets really harsh.

One thing I've noticed just recently, is that people have been playing Mario Kart 8 a lot, and this isn't necessarily a bad thing, but the chat is just filled with MK8 babble half the time. Mafia talk should also be in a separate channel which some of us have tried to enforce but failed. I'm not sure if there is a mod that can watch over the cellar/basement, but if there isn't, maybe one of the new/existing mods could do that? (you probably already thought of that) I find that sometimes the gaming talk in general can be a bit too much, ESPECIALLY for new users. They get completely turned off when games are going on in the IRC.

And again, I don't think that we can blame people for their negativity per say. I think that sometimes people are a bit too sensitive, but also that people can be a bit too harsh. There have been a few times (some recently) that I have seriously lost my cool and went all out on people, I'm not proud of it, but it is really hard to control sometimes when people can pretty much say whatever they want to you, and you can say whatever you want to them online.

A couple quick fixes for some of the negativity would be disclaimers in all Mafia games ensuring that people who are easily offended, etc. should probably steer clear, and enforcing gaming talk to switch to different channels, and even keep a single channel to use for certain events and/or Mafia games.

Hopefully with the new mods, some of this will be easier to do, and together we can help make this place more positive. I know for myself, I've some great friends, and love hanging out with people on the IRC. It's also great hanging out at the TBT Dance Party recently, which has had some really great turnouts and conversations.
 
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"One thing I've noticed just recently, is that people have been playing Mario Kart 8 a lot, and this isn't necessarily a bad thing, but the chat is just filled with MK8 babble half the time. Mafia talk should also be in a separate channel which some of us have tried to enforce but failed. I'm not sure if there is a mod that can watch over the cellar/basement, but if there isn't, maybe one of the new/existing mods could do that? (you probably already thought of that) I find that sometimes the gaming talk in general can be a bit too much, ESPECIALLY for new users. They get completely turned off when games are going on in the IRC."

we got shouted at for skyping, and told to keep it in irc and mumble..

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Please ban Cory, He's mean, this would fix everything :lemon:

This isn't nice!
 
now I'm going to stop you here
"One thing I've noticed just recently, is that people have been playing Mario Kart 8 a lot, and this isn't necessarily a bad thing, but the chat is just filled with MK8 babble half the time. Mafia talk should also be in a separate channel which some of us have tried to enforce but failed. I'm not sure if there is a mod that can watch over the cellar/basement, but if there isn't, maybe one of the new/existing mods could do that? (you probably already thought of that) I find that sometimes the gaming talk in general can be a bit too much, ESPECIALLY for new users. They get completely turned off when games are going on in the IRC."

we got shouted at for skyping, and told to keep it in irc and mumble..

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This isn't nice!

Personally I never agreed with the whole Skype clique controversy thingy. In my opinion, it was fine the way it is, but we're talking about trying to keep a positive atmosphere, and I'm just sharing my thoughts. I think it would definitely help, and I don't think keeping game event chat in a different channel is really that difficult.
 
Personally I never agreed with the whole Skype clique controversy thingy. In my opinion, it was fine the way it is, but we're talking about trying to keep a positive atmosphere, and I'm just sharing my thoughts. I think it would definitely help, and I don't think keeping game event chat in a different channel is really that difficult.

I'm not trying to say you're wrong, I'm trying to say, we kept it in the irc because we were told we had a "clique" and we needed to involve everyone, now it seems, we can't win..

You're entitled to your opinion and honestly, i found skype better so i agree, but can you see where I'm coming from?
 
I'm not trying to say you're wrong, I'm trying to say, we kept it in the irc because we were told we had a "clique" and we needed to involve everyone, now it seems, we can't win..

You're entitled to your opinion and honestly, i found skype better so i agree, but can you see where I'm coming from?

Definitely, but there is really no other solution.
 
I like this forum.
Most of the time, it's positive.
Though I tend to steer clear of the IRC. I already know some people dislike me for my opinions on political things, and that's fine. I have had friends paste me some logs of what people have said and I honestly don't want to go there ever. Am I being a baby? Maybe. But I can't really talk to people with very opposite opinions of mine on serious stuff I guess. Like if it was about a band or something or some actor, then I could let it slide. But I can't really talk to people who are constantly offensive and rude about my gender or laugh at offensive jokes. It grinds my gears sometimes when I see it on the forums itself, but I'm learning to ignore it. I argue with lots of people here, though it's mostly two people. I don't hate them, but we have very different opinions and ideals of things. If we didn't have disagreements, then I would think they're decent.

I like the community feeling this place gives. Without this place I wouldn't have met really great people. I've made a few friends here but that's okay with me. They're kind and listen to me, and some of them I talk to nearly everyday. Also I make mutuals with people on here on tumblr so yeah heh.
 
I like this forum.
Most of the time, it's positive.
Though I tend to steer clear of the IRC. I already know some people dislike me for my opinions on political things, and that's fine. I have had friends paste me some logs of what people have said and I honestly don't want to go there ever. Am I being a baby? Maybe. But I can't really talk to people with very opposite opinions of mine on serious stuff I guess. Like if it was about a band or something or some actor, then I could let it slide. But I can't really talk to people who are constantly offensive and rude about my gender or laugh at offensive jokes. It grinds my gears sometimes when I see it on the forums itself, but I'm learning to ignore it. I argue with lots of people here, though it's mostly two people. I don't hate them, but we have very different opinions and ideals of things. If we didn't have disagreements, then I would think they're decent.

I like the community feeling this place gives. Without this place I wouldn't have met really great people. I've made a few friends here but that's okay with me. They're kind and listen to me, and some of them I talk to nearly everyday. Also I make mutuals with people on here on tumblr so yeah heh.

If it's anything, I like you from what I've seen. You shouldn't not go in if you want to go in that is! I've never heard a bad word about you! :)
 
We should have a new irc channel for acnl only, I have seen a lot of people joining the irc just to talk acnl stuff

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I'm serious :P
 
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