Yesterday on the discord I brought up a point I felt was worthy of lengthy, thought out discussion. The fact that predators often seem to get extremely negative and outright toxic attention, causing them to eventually leave, only for people to wonder where the hell all the predators went, and when new ones join, for the entire thing to happen all over again.
People soon derailed the entire point of the discussion and it was disregarded as the usual monthly thing. If it gets talked about so often, then maybe it REALLY IS AN ISSUE THAT NEEDA TO BE SOLVED.
I've had several run-ins with this exact kind of behaviour, which left sore tastes in my mouth about the server in general, and outright made me not know what to do with most of the characters on the station because I tended to stick to people who I knew would not give me shit.
To name a few examples, and yes, I know, ahelp it:
-A security officer somehow knew I ate the bartender in his own backroom. He bluntly asked me, who did you eat? I responded with Pun-Pun. Said monkey then got thrown through the bar and I got tased on the spot and brigged for 30 minutes. The guy admitted in looc he went with the sound, and the red text, to know I had eaten someone in private. He also said he pretty much hated my character.
-Try being prey once as an avid predator and you'll never hear the end of it. Medical staff constantly laughs at the character, even lasting for several shifts, or making it a permanent joke. To give an example of how to do it right; when I got eaten, Duke said to Roiz, "Hay there big guy, so ya finallah know wut its laik ta be on tha receiving side? Naw go an gimme summin ta do." He acknowledged I got eaten, but also acknowledged I still like to pred. This is the good kind of banter. Banter in itself shouldn't have to be an issue, but know when to stop, or else it'll just become annoying and may end up driving people away. Which it has already.
-Predators become unfun to play, because characters will avoid them, or friends of a character you ate will actively work on making sure they stay the hell away from the predator, creating an air of... Unfun, and tediousness. For example, I ate a Teshari. Other Tesharies would completely distrust my character, and even bolted down a door to make sure I couldn't interact with them. This reduces the chances you can get to scene with them, and thus feels like the players want nothing to do with your character, BECAUSE YOU PRED. The unfun aspect has caused pred players to be driven away, or make their character get perma'd, because they don't enjoy playing that character anymore because other characters and players will make it unfun to play that one. This even drove friends of that player away as well.
-One time I ate a person who doesn't do vore as much. They're more into the inflation side of things. I indulged them in their darker interests and they decided to return the favor; they let me eat their character. Somehow, a friend of this character knew. I was in the dorms, had during that shift not even once interacted with this friend, but he kept PDA'ing me they were scared about the character, and constantly asked what I'm doing, where I am, and why I kept avoiding the question. I told them they're fine, we'll see them in a bit, and she'll be all healthy. So then they got resleeved, I brought the character to that friend, and they somehow knew I did bad things. They forced my character to admit I ate them, and went completely berserk, if they didn't ICly get held back, they probably would have killed my character or at least make sure he'd get sent to medical with a coma. Hence why I mention the UNFUN.
-I got brigged because a friend of a person I ate told sec via PDA, when I dragged them off to the very back of the kitchen. Lo and behold, four sec officers bursted in with their tazers in my face, yelled at him every second as if he was able to jump their shit every second, when I play a character who doesn't have the will to fight back, and gets easily startled. The scene was interrupted and I got brigged, it didn't have the vore crime treatment.
-People were tossing a harpy around on the kitchen counter. It was all in good fun, and they'd talk about who gets to eat them, when they decided to let the chef have him to make chicken wings, except not really because soft vore. The chef being me. The CD at the time said, "If you dare touch him I will make sure you're hanged upside down on your balls." Bam, fun gone. It spiraled away into a LOOC discussion, things got out of hand, at which point I said fuck it all and disconnected right there because I was so fucking pissed off. Later on I got told that same CD was sucking someone's blood IN THE BAR IN /ME to the point the victim turned into a dry raisin. Unwillingly too. The hypocrisy on this one is blatantly stupid.
This is all over the span of roughly four to five months.
Now, to summarize all this. Do we really want an atmosphere in which people are driven away eventually, whether ICly or OOCly, because they do the thing this server was made for? Do we really want things to become unfun for everyone? I'm pretty sure it's all supposed to be in good fun, is it not? Then let's stop fucking around and make sure this doesn't stay a monthly discussion.
And yes, I know, bla bla respond realistically to people being eaten.
If I forgot anything that was said during the Discord discussion last night, feel free to chip in, it was 2 am and I was extremely tired.
Ps; furry drama is a real fucking thing and this shows it
Like seriously chill the fuck out and have fun, stop causing shit