holiday stealing

(Anonymous) 2022-08-03 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Anyone else wish this would happen at least once? I wanna see the fallout from a flight stealing another flights holiday dominance. How many confused newbies who thought holiday dom was automatic do u think would complain about the "bug"

Re: holiday stealing

(Anonymous) 2022-08-03 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Honestly I would love to see this happen too.

Quick, everyone migrate to Earth or Water and mass exalt

Re: holiday stealing

(Anonymous) 2022-08-03 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
sooo much drama

Re: holiday stealing

(Anonymous) 2022-08-03 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't remember specifics, but there was an incident back in 2015 where Ice threatened to steal Fire's holiday, and they would have done it, easily, with the combination of how dom worked back then, plus all the rich/whales it had.

There was also a RUMOR that Plague was going to push during Thundercrack (in the same year) and the rumor itself made DR EXPLODE with Plague hate.

Re: holiday stealing

(Anonymous) 2022-08-03 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah i really cant imagine this ending positively for the flight that steals dom for the holiday. people would probably avoid supporting their dom efforts moving forward, i know i would.

Re: holiday stealing

(Anonymous) 2022-08-04 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
My issue with it isn’t even that people would get mad at the pushing flight, it’s that they would send so much fodder to them. The moment you flip on someone’s holiday, the entire site will rally behind them, so it’s nearly impossible to actually do it. I wish it were, though, it’d be funny.

Re: holiday stealing

(Anonymous) 2022-08-04 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
That's pretty much what happened in the incident year one, if my memory isn't failing me.

Re: holiday stealing

(Anonymous) 2022-08-04 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah IIRC, Light and Lightning didn't have dom their first year because the "tradition" didn't start until Fire/Arcane holiday, I think?

Re: holiday stealing

(Anonymous) 2022-08-05 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
No. Lightning had theirs year one. Light was the only flight that lost theirs.

Re: holiday stealing

(Anonymous) 2022-08-05 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Lightning got theirs, but Ice threatened to take it away and then "graciously" decided to 'give it back' to them to "ensure their revelry"

Re: holiday stealing

(Anonymous) 2022-08-25 11:19 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. A couple members of Ice Flight did try to take Fire's first year, but many people rivaled against them so Fire did not lose it.

There's a thread way back still in FRD about it, can't be assed to find it rn.

Re: holiday stealing

(Anonymous) 2022-08-24 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
More specifically (as I actually read this drama within the last year, some of the old stuff is juicy)

It was 99% one player in ice who wanted to steal flameforgers. One very very rich player. Which, yeah the fact that one asshole could have stolen the festival was a huge issue.

Re: holiday stealing

(Anonymous) 2022-08-04 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
the chaos would be a headache
but it'd be cute if there was a planned switch

Re: holiday stealing

(Anonymous) 2022-08-04 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
wait thats adorable. how dare you

Re: holiday stealing

(Anonymous) 2022-08-08 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Yessss. Yes it would.

Re: holiday stealing

(Anonymous) 2022-08-04 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
I wound't exactly say i wish it would happen, but i do think, if it was somehow managed, the chaos would be *something*

Could you *imagine*. The offending flight would never live it down. The drama'd be dug up every year from then on, istg

Re: holiday stealing

(Anonymous) 2022-08-04 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
The offending flight would never be able to win their festival again unless they were Earth, unless they paid ludicrous prices, and flights would push deliberately for their holiday.

This site never forgives or forgets.

Re: holiday stealing

(Anonymous) 2022-08-04 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I feel like the dom team of the offending flight would be witch hunted off of the site but I honestly don't think there would be sitewide hard feelings after like a year. Kids these days don't even remember he purble

Re: holiday stealing

(Anonymous) 2022-08-04 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I know people that still hold lightning flight responsible for a dom lead being a shitlord.

I think you underestimate human nature and holding grudges.

Re: holiday stealing

(Anonymous) 2022-08-07 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
Tbf, some people do deserve to have grudges held against them, especially if they show zero signs of wanting to be less shitty.

Holding a grudge against a massive group of people like an entire flight? Silly.
But "that one dom organizer who drove everyone away, near single-handedly killed dom in their flight for months after, then tried to bail ship in hopes of getting praise and accolades in a flight that he hoped wouldn't have seen just how terrible he was," and continued to be a shitlord for multiple years running? Yeah, they can fuck right off forever. (Possible exception for if they actually try to reform, but some of these people are pretty clearly uninterested in that, sooo..)

Re: holiday stealing

(Anonymous) 2022-08-05 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Bro? Every once in a while some people still dig up stuff from like 2016 lmao

Re: holiday stealing

(Anonymous) 2022-08-05 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
This lol. I was called a "Plague Loudmouth" by someone in Ice back in 2015, and there are STILL folks who call me that who know me/remember the incident.