there's always going to be sore losers and sore winners when it comes to any sort of competition involving large groups of people. no one can ever account for the actions and behaviours of 100% of the people 100% of the time, and no one ever LOVES to lose, buuut i think tensions are high among the folks who aren't good at handling winning or losing a spontaneous battle in an online environment that's become complacent on "if you announce it, you should be allowed to win it" with mechanics that have been somewhat polarizing within the community its whole existence. then negativity bias kicks in where people notice the negative far more than the positive, and remember it better.
makes it harder to notice that most of the folks had a blast. we should be paying attention to the success this event had so the community at large could innovate on it and make the next one better.
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(Anonymous) 2025-01-13 12:50 am (UTC)(link)there's always going to be sore losers and sore winners when it comes to any sort of competition involving large groups of people. no one can ever account for the actions and behaviours of 100% of the people 100% of the time, and no one ever LOVES to lose, buuut i think tensions are high among the folks who aren't good at handling winning or losing a spontaneous battle in an online environment that's become complacent on "if you announce it, you should be allowed to win it" with mechanics that have been somewhat polarizing within the community its whole existence. then negativity bias kicks in where people notice the negative far more than the positive, and remember it better.
makes it harder to notice that most of the folks had a blast. we should be paying attention to the success this event had so the community at large could innovate on it and make the next one better.