Hey everyone, so it appears that I'm owner again. I'd like to preface this by saying that it's not with any malice or whatever that I'm coming back to this with, Merlot doesn't have time to own the lobby anymore (she's quite busy with work) and as such has been having difficulty picking a successor. Because of this, I'm here in this interim period to look after the lobby whilst we come to an agreement on who's gonna helm the ship from hereon out. I'm not entirely sure how long this period will last, it could be anywhere from a couple of weeks to over a month, but to the people who dislike me please rest assured that this is not permanent.
In the meantime, I'll be looking to streamline some of Sandbox's aspects and make a few quality of life tweaks for both the moderators and the regular users. If people have any recommendations of how to further improve Sandbox or who would make for a good successor, please don't hesitate to send me a private message.
Thank you for reading this message and thank you for being a patron of Sandbox Lobby.
its not that you dont care, it's just that you don't get your hopes up
it's kind of like when you play unranked as opposed to ranked, it's still mafia and you're still trying to reach the same goal, but you're not getting too invested so you won't be too upset if you lose
is this drama or a civil discussion did i log in for NOTHING?
deletedover 9 years ago
It's a university simulator mind you
deletedover 9 years ago
the thing is that people in 2011/2012 came here to engage in serious competitive mafia games as corny as that may sound, and that all changed when tumblr ran its course in 2013 and made people treat the site like it was a high school simulator
and yeah toxicity is just gross in general but a lot of the turning points was some really unhealthy levels of obsession and harassment on top of doxxing users
I was pretty toxic in 2013 but I figured out that it's easier to make new friends if I'm constantly not like that in my life I wish other people on EM would see that revelation I found at the age of 15
deletedover 9 years ago
i wasnt around in 2010-2013 but i do come from a "more toxic" forum that has no rules but is a lot nicer than EM at times. i dont think the comparisons of times necessarily hold up
just because people called others Re'tard Pedophile 'got C'unts more often back then doesnt mean it was more toxic, theres plenty of really disgusting sh'it that peopel do to others nowadays like doxing them or really trying to fu'ck with other people thats a lot worse than jsut angy name calling
deletedover 9 years ago
the toxicity argument works because people who are apart of the consistent playerbase(which is the most important) quite a few have left because of toxicity.
see that's the trick, even when talking about something that could possibly be of substance you approach it as if it isn't so you're still making possibly valuable points or something but you aren't really expecting anything to come of it so it kind of has the effect of both a) not being disappointing, and b) allowing you to think freely and clearly as opposed to stressfully
that offer is expired now and it's getting old and moldy
deletedover 9 years ago
right, well when u talking about IQ or whatever stupid sh'it ur expectations are to just talk about stupid sh'it. if u get engaged with some "lets make EM better by chanign the text size slightly!" type of threads then ur probably just gonna be left unfulfilled cuz nothing will change
deletedover 9 years ago
the toxicity argument is demonstrably false since epicmafia during it's competitive "zenith" (2010-2013) was objectively way more harsh and cruel to newbie players but i really doubt many people quit because of that
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