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SweetNSpicyLemon is now locked, but i'm nosy and curious if it's because of the thread or because they asked another user why they blocked their friend lmao

(said friend coincidentally also commented on the queen glory database entry to ask 'how is this allowed'.... 🔎👀)

Ah so you're saying I should keep sending pictures of my cat to you then

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I hope you spoil the hell out of your new furbaby!!

nayrt

"no mercs" is a non-enforceable rule imo, there will always be mercs. "no mercs with vault money" is also a fallacy, people will just not donate / donate less to be able to keep that flexibility :/ allowing mercs doesnt mean both sides will be 24/7 ordering tho (usually this does not happen)

raffle prizes agreements seem to be helpful from what i've seen, i think that one works

Raffle agreements are visible, and if you break them, you look awful. No mercs just results in tons of personal merc orders or buying leveled off the AH.

I'm betting a mix of the two.

Admittedly, if the friend was locked, I'd assume it was a multi ban.

Only archived links? Its an anonymous com and we discuss drama here. Only archived links should be allowed to 1) let everyone else see the deets and 2) discourage people from commenting on the threads if its active

ALWAYS?????

It's been suggested.

https://anonrerising.dreamwidth.org/3013.html?thread=1939653#cmt1939653

This was part of the reason- I'm for it, honestly, buuuut people like asking for archive links but won't do it themselves, and get snippy when called out on it :)

I am so mad now lol, I was LITERALLY going to have a square "QuirkyJunimo at it again"

Said friend is BigSisterMoon, and they're not locked, so I'm guessing Lemon was locked for the thread.

Wouldn't be surprised if BigSisterMoon was given a warning, though. Asking someone to ask someone else about why they're blocked is block evasion and is against the rules.

That was the one of the most passive aggressive things I've ever read.

Agreed. I don't understand why anyone would choose the messiness of a bunch of private merc orders going around vs flight mercs. It's easier for people who want to contribute funds to help their flight (they can just focus on their dom bank), faster accepting for those who want to sell, and helps avoid people with the same goals from accidentally competing with each other.

Mercs have been on the scene for at least 6 years, anyway. Battles being more expensive now is about more than just mercs.

Fuck. Mercs.

You can say that all you want. They aren't going anywhere. I hate that they're a thing, but if you won't pay and someone else will... You are at a massive disadvantage.

If they don't sell direct, they sell leveled on the AH. There's no winning.

Wouldn't it be possible for QuirkyJunimo be filed under 'well known FRD/GEND spammer at it again'? Unless that is for a very specific person and not just general spammer.

NAYRT and somewhat unrelated

just a big compliment to your new dom leads, they seem very pleasant. Ern and Kyrwen especially!

This. People seem to have a particular hate-on for mercs but reality just doesn't back it up. It always mystifies me lol

The most hilarious part to me is that often the people who "hate mercs" directly profit from them during battles. Not saying you're doing that, nonnie, but I just. Do not understand the sentiment anyway?
Money is money; mercs aren't really all that different than a PB except that they're a little more efficient and thus a little more expensive. IME they're still cheaper than AH purchases, which also happen.
If someone can enlighten me why mercs are the "bane of battles" or why they are so terrible, please feel free to do so. I am just constantly baffled.

Sorry to bother you, mods, could we possibly get a Latest Page button for this post? No worries if not, since it's pretty easy to jump into the post and just skip to the last page, but I just thought I'd ask! :)

I love when someone spouts a steady flow of bullshit, people point that out and the most jelly-brained nerds show up to tone police it. Sure everyone should be giving OP the benefit of the doubt, you can't be sure they're racist just because they keep being racist and it's super mean to assume.

I remember the days before organized mercs were an -official- thing. However, I don't doubt that people selling leveled fodder on the AH has been around since the birth of the site. But rather the popularization and expectancy of mercs suck to me. Mercs "force" the battling flights to jump out of their ass and accommodate to the prices they set because, as someone already mentioned, if YOU dont buy it, the OTHER flight will. When mercs became a more recognized thing that's when I -personally- realized that dom fights became less about just two flights beating the shit out of each other for pride and fun, and more just about how much other people can profit off of it. Whether there's an actual correlation in the timeline or not, I dont give a fuck, thats just the moment that dom was killed to me. It was the number 1 reason I was on the site to begin with. It put the wind out of my sails. Mercing forces a weird, unfun shift that the battling flights can not control.

And before anyone bitches at me: I know that not everyone is into dom, some people just want profit to fuel their aesthetics, others want to see how far up the fodder floor goes up for funsies, etc etc. All of these play styles are super valid! Hell, power to the dom people now who dont mind mercs at all! Especially to the people who were around before organized mercs were a thing. You are a stronger person than I and I respect that. But the overwhelming expectancy of people wanting to profit off of dom has made dom in general not fun anymore and I bunch that up with the rise of population of mercs. Also disclaimer: NO, theyre not the sole reason why dom is in a weird place now.

I'd like to point out though that I dont entirely blame this behavior especially if the battling flights don't match up with the fodder floor since not every user on the site agreed to there being a dom battle to begin with and battles tend to suck up the cheap fodder. Some people were perfectly fine with their 6.5k fodder floors before the battle bumped it up to 9kT and making it more of a pain in the ass to upkeep profit goals for that week. I don't expect everyone to play along just because two flights are battling, they want money and they're going to get it.

I hope this post provides some perspective onto why some people don't like mercs. For the record, no, I was never a merc and I never sold leveled fodder onto the AH either.

TL;DR: I understand why mercs are a thing and understand that people have different play styles but I hate how dom culture is now adays and wish we'd go back to just flights punching each other for the sake of winning the battle and not just a competition of how much oofers can profit off of them. I know they will never go away, but sometimes i wish there was a way that battling flights could just ignore them and leveled fodder on the AH and see what happens.

I remember those days too. You aren't alone.

Dom battles now are too big on profit for the masses. After everyone profited off my flight, I'm looking forward to the upcoming battle to profit off someone else

It's like watching a recording of a train wreck reading this. I'm glad it's been nuked out of orbit wtf.

GL nonny! I hope you at least break even!

BINGO

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