[quote=@Dynamo Frokane] [center][h2][b]IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT[/b][/h2][/center] [b]Your boss is spouting bullshit and must leave the RP to appease...who, exactly? [/b] [/quote] Tempted to do discord-only for Shine City at this point; though you do have a couple of things that grinds my gears over the way you run things at times, the fact that you keep coming back to this RP is already more than enough to make up for that. I dunno if it's just me or not, but so far we've been able to keep the cheery aspect of the OOC section pretty well; I haven't really noticed any big discussion or argument here specifically that shows any reason for you to relinquish your position as GM, voluntarily or otherwise. For one, this RP isn't entirely GM driven. Players have a lot more freedom than what's allowed in say...the Sky Warriors or the like. And while this usually means a quick death of a slew of less-than-decent roleplayers having no cohesion in any aspect, literally hundreds of posts from the past seasons combined and subsequent spin-offs over the 1x1x1x1...'s show that many of the players have been able to get on the same page and work together for Shine City to happen, even when it's not possible for the majority of the players at times. For another, the fact that players tend to muddle OOC with IC should not punish the GM, unless the GM is involved...and even so, it really shouldn't affect the RP ICly unless IRL cuts in. In season 2, and again now, there's been some sort of weird conflict that I was (unfortunately) unaware of and/or unable to get myself involved in without seeming biased. Regardless of what happened in season 2 ICly, it seemed that there was an incident between players and some sort of "passive-aggressive" bullshit I was not part of, nor did it seem like you or the majority of other players were part of. That caused the drop-out of key players at the time, and then a domino happened where the RP emptied out faster than a bottle of scotch at a frat party. That really pissed me off that time, hence the OOC rant that had me questioning "who what when where why how is this RP dead?" And now again, it's come to the removal of a key player within an RP, who just also happens to be the founding GM over some OOC bullshit that isn't even part of the majority of the players' concerns, unless you were to voluntarily go out of your way to find every reason to not want Boss to be Boss. Here's the thing : this is the Internet. Each site is a territory all on their own, and the Guild here is not an exception. Each site dictates what type of content is to be shown to who under what circumstances exactly. In the Guild, it's been dictated that adult content should not be posted to the public, and that the virtual equivalents of crimes (blackmail, defamation to assets/businesses, harassment of any kind, etc.) are not allowed. The rest is up to the users of the site to decide. You have rules for each and every individual RP, you have a general manner of conduct that is excusable and inexcusable set by the GM, and you have the choice of not participating in an RP that you feel have generally shitty people to be around. You also have the choice to post opinions, or post opinions contesting the validity against other opinions, or so on and so forth. I'm free to actually say that everybody who plays in the Free section of the guild is a pubescent 12-year old with less manners than the 4 year-old idiot (also an opinion here) who climbed through barbed wire and fell into a pit solely because he might've wanted some "me time" with Harambe. I may be wrong (they might actually be pubescent manchildren from Brazil and Saudi Arabia who oh so desperately want to screw a girl, real-life or otherwise <---this is also an opinon), but nevertheless, so long as I'm not legitimately promoting things like murder and suicide, I've got the privilege of being a dick to everyone else. And everyone has the privilege to react how they wish, so long as they don't break site guidelines. So I might get shunned from every roleplayer if I suddenly started spouting that all Jews were Zionist pigs and that all Palestinians were Wahhabist scumbags who can't learn to think for themselves, and that's fine for me to get shunned. What users don't have the privilege to do is control for the entirety of the site any opinion or difference; that's reserved for the owners and managers of this site. Truth be told, there are other sites, roleplaying or otherwise, that have far, far more restrictions on what content is allowed than what can be posted here. And there other sites, roleplaying or otherwise, that allow far, far less restrictions on what content can be shown. For example, I'll use two sites that specialize in choose-your-own-adventure kind of stories. ChoiceOfGames.com have moderators and administrators that strive for a professional setting to work with, so they've been given the power to ban whoever they feel like detracts from that. chooseyourstory.com, inversely, allows some pretty fucking ridiculous opinions and crude inside jokes (everyone fucks one particular user's mom there, for example) to be flung over the forums since they want to promote the love and hobby of writing a CYOA story and the freedom that a CYOA story has over a linear one. You get two different sites that do similar things, and yet have different standards and ways to go about doing said thing (writing CYOA stories). And then there's also an erotic CYOA site, but that doesn't really count for anything since AdBlock is a must to even browse through its contents. As far as I'm concerned, the Guild here isn't a rallying place for SJW's or feminists, though either certainly are allowed to come here and roleplay the mass-slaughter of a million misogynistic men if they so wished. Likewise, the Guild also isn't a rallying place for Trump supporters or Clinton or Bernie supporters, but any of the three are allowed to come here and make a massive three-way war RP about it, if they so wished. From what I've seen, the Guild isn't an academic site, nor is it supposed to be the home for every liberal ever. The guild isn't even focused on selling table-top campaigns for Pathfinder or any other die-roll system, so there's no need for professionalism unless it's mandated in an RP. In any case, though, since this site's purpose isn't for monetary gain and the like, I'd rather that we do try to reach an understanding with one another instead of trying to push our own beliefs and agendas on one another without knowing each other's histories and dilemmas IRL. If we're going to be a site for entertainment and recreation, we should promote that, instead of trying to discourage it. At the end of the day, that's what ignorance and impatience does. Shit-posting really, really doesn't help permanently; it's just gonna perpetuate some pointless grudge and misunderstanding.