***This thread is only for the discussion of CURRENT and ongoing issues within the community.
Topics of Discussion (feel free to bring about your own issues that you would like the council to address)***
This Is NOT a meme thread.
If you want to raise issues for reals and get serious answers and be considered seriously this is the topic to make it happen.
I will make a legitimate council role and a private channel within my OFFCIAL Sandbox server to discuss the issues brought up and see what we can actually do to fix things. The council will be made up of users who I believe can bring informative, intuitive, intelligent and genuine opinions/thoughts/inputs.
Current Issues:
What should we do if a user is threatening suicide over an event that has happened on epicmafia
Discrimination against noavis.
What we can do to protect ourselves from getting our I.P stolen.
Join my discord if you wish to be part of the discussion or comment bellow anything you want to add to the topics or any topics you wish to bring up.
This might be a meme to some of you but if we legitimately want to make sandbox a safe, welcoming and fun place we should see if we can realistically prevent/deal or react differently to different situations.
unless you have proof that a substantial amount of new users leave then this is invalidated. everyones experience is different. i started playing epicmafia as a noavi and was policy'd but i kept playing regardless. no 2 experiences will be the same!
There is evidence. They no avis get kicked or lynched. Theu say idk how to play im new we kick they say why we say fry so why wpuld they vother sticking around when the community seems toxic an d unwelcomeing?
I don't buy your premise that we are "lynching away the user base from our website." You can't get lynched from the website. You can only get lynched from a game. When you get lynched from a game, you go and join another one. Epicmafia is iterative. You have as many chances as you would like for redemption, improvement, etc. Also, the notion that an epicmafia game is about self-preservation is silly. New players learn from the GY too. I know I did. And hey, you can even win from the GY.
Again, I believe that no avi policy is bad policy. I reject policy when I can. But the conclusion that masses of players are turning away from the site because they just couldn't handle (or understand) being lynched for having no avi is suspect. Is there evidence that this is the case? I am all ears.
I am for site improvement. And I am for new players and a busier sandbox. You say that it is up to us to make the lobby a better place and I agree. But the infantilization of new players is not part of any solution.
A new ethics question for the council to consider:
Should us community members sit around doing nothing and let the mods handle everything? Or should we as a community come to our own desitions because the mods cant stop us from lynching away the user base from out website, they cant protect us from ip hacks they cant even react to everything or even anything in sandbox because we basically have no rules.
Sandbox is a community driven lobby. Its up to us to make the lobby a better place.
I am taking your issues seriously, Roxy, which is why I was responding. I can't control other people responding. If you'd like, you can tell me what to add to the discussion topics tomorrow. I'm on my phone now
i just wanted the issues i brought up to be taken seriously but everyone was like lel dis a meme why you takin it so seriously . NO. I WANNA MAKE EPICAMFIA GREAT FOR REAL.
the question is more about the other users. how we as a community should react.
For example should the first thing we do is @a mod/admin to handle the situation? should we message the person and tell them yo epicmafia is not worth it log off , etc.
