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An important update:

Due to a specific person being a complete child, comments are going to be screened by default.

This is only temporary, and I apologize for the inconvenience- this is going to be a pain in the ass for me, too, but multiple people have come forward about fears of doxxing, and this is the only way to make sure any doxxing is contained.

(This basically will force the doxxer to make a DW account to post any doxxing attempts unscreened, and will let me more reliably report them to DW staff/authorities.)

Again, I apologize, and will be working to unscreen comments as fast as possible, but I'm only one person.

(Vasemod has had some personal issues come up, so I am the only mod atm. Please bear with me until this bit of annoyance has passed.)

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Re: mass pings are going to be killed and it’s going to kill the economy

[(Anonymous)]

i’m angry because a site feature/community i care deeply about is going to be extremely impacted by this change. i’ll come out and say that i’m concerned for skins and accents, and skins are the main reason i’ve kept interest in this game. the idea that gasp could become obsolete is harmful to so many people, artists and collectors. and i believe this will have a wider impact than they’ve anticipated.

a ten skin bundle is the lowest cost per skin, but it is a 5000g investment. many players can’t make that investment up-front. those users rely on gasp for both exposure and the ability to make the skin. the engagement that gasp gives is impossible to replicate on the forums naturally, and it can be difficult even for artists that have ‘big’ pinglists to fill entire runs because skin and accent collecting is expensive.

even though this part of the site is robust, it’s still a small percentage of users overall, so it genuinely wouldn’t make sense for staff to use resources recreating this simple and effective system of advertising. as another anon pointed out, it would likely come with its own set of challenges to moderate if they *did* implement it on site. and this is only one community that relies on pinglists for advertising sales and finding items/dragons/whatever they specifically desire. these are systems that have had *years* for trial and error, and anything that replaces them is going to have kinks that will harm the economy while they’re worked out.

i don’t think we have a dappervolk or lorwolf on our hands, but it cannot be overstated that economic impacts will be very much felt as a result of this decision.