Please can we put an end to all these 'flagging battles?'

[TheIdleOne]

@Slypenslyde

Is there a list of things people can post that allow me to be a jerk without apologies? Can you compile it for me?

I think we don’t see eye to eye about who is goading who when somebody says “Make everyone used to using their brains [who agree with me]…”. I don’t think you’d be very pleased if I insulted your intelligence while making a post.

You’re right, I wouldn’t see eye to eye there. I (personally) don’t try to self-insert into a person’s blanket statement and change it to be a target about me. Can his statement be said in a cleaner and nicer way? sure. Do I get what he’s trying to say though? yes.

His actual valid suggestions were completely ignored.

@Earnham

There are classes with both banishment (gets rid of bless/enchant/etc.) And immune to death mark. There is no 10% this or that luck when you are immune to it. It never even happens.

@Earnham

If your team is not working you need to change it

and people went straight into attack mode. More for the guy above you, but you also decided to call him Mr. Trump there as if that was necessary.

I’m not defending him as a “friend”

1. I don’t know Earnham.
2. I’m in a guild that is completely against his.
3. I also think he put way more time into his comments than he needed to, to his detriment. Would have been off making a 2 liner statement.

@Slypenslyde

This is the other quality of Jerk behavior: once you call out a Jerk for being a Jerk, his Jerk friends show up and try to harass you into shutting up. And pretty soon instead of the topic of the thread (flags), now we’re all discussing whether it was insulting to say players who disagree are brainless.

Wrapping this back to flags, being so aggressive with flags to every little thing that is disagreed with is more harmful than good. Its a slippery slope that just leads to more problems.

Unfortunately, being a jerk to jerk behavior doesn’t make someone a better person for it. You may complain about someone trying to shut you up, but in the process you’re trying to get them to shut up about their view points on a topic.

@Slypenslyde

You can’t tell me you think a Doomskull spam “strategy” is “harder”, Mr. Trump. Those are the words of a person who enjoys disagreeing more than thinking.

You want to start flagging things? flag that.

Don’t Be a Jerk

Trolling or Combative Behaviour – This also covers responding to such attacks in a similar manner.
Upsetting and/or provoking other forum members.

The PG-13 Line

Am I trying to goad someone into an argument? If so, maybe don’t.

@Slypenslyde

As such, I’m flagging that discussion as off-topic

Funny enough, off-topic is actually not part of the community guidelines.

https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/community-guidelines/23732

Don’t ask me why.

But if you want to flag Off-Topic, flag this post of yours for not being on-topic about nerfing Life and Death and flag a good portion of those other posts for not being about nerf Life and Death.

@Slypenslyde

Yeah, this is kind of how I feel.

Yesterday I had my first 3-2 GW in a long time. The first opponent had a Gobtruffle + Norbert’s Turnip team. For both losses, the opponent’s turn 2 involved 8+ free turns that left me with a completely ruined team, often with 2 deaths. The 3 wins were against 2 Gobtruffle teams. I won in 5-8 turns.

The difference wasn’t strategy. Both teams on the table favored very lopsided results. I got unlucky the first two times. This kind of reliance on high-variance strategies permeates GW.

Aren’t flags and censorship fun? No? Don’t start problems about every little thing.

Heck, that’s the whole purpose of this original topic:

Please can we put an end to all these ‘flagging battles?’