[quote=@Inkarnate]
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Does it make you stronger or does it make you a noninclusive community?! :gray

Now that I think about it, I imagine a lot of Arena’s reputation is bloated due to certain marque members reputations [i]outside[/i] of it more than it has anything to do with Arena itself. This, of course, isn’t really a problem that can be fixed but as long as personal attacks are slugged around it really just ends up being jovial shitposting in the end. Still, it does not hurt to be [i]inviting[/i].

Ultimately, I suppose the definitive question for the subforum is this: [i]What can you do to retro-act the illicit reputation that Arena and its users seem affected by?[/i]
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Nothing, don't even bother too. Spam had a similar reputation, but after spending a long time in there - and that's all it took - most of them were pretty cool. Some of them are phenomenal RPers. Same with here. When I ran Allaria, my baby, several people from both Spam and the arena joined(over total incarnations, I said around 70 interest, and about 50 accepted characters), and it was glorious. 

As another example, when I first met Melonhead, he was an argumentative little twatwaffle. But we became friends. He's still a argumentative twatwaffle. But hes dope as shit and can probably take anyone here in an arena fight.