I’ve been in arcane forever but haven’t really had eyes on the discord until within the past 2ish years, so the power abuse stuff must have escaped me. What was your experience with that?
Aside from that, I agree with your observations. I’ve long said to other people that Arcane is in a self-perpetuating cycle of shooting itself in the foot - as far as I can tell, they don’t care that we have a huge reputation of being the place that doesn’t give a shit about dom. It shows in the subpar raffles and the lack of movement when it comes to planning things and drumming up excitement for said things; if I may, I’d even say that the dom efforts, at least in the discord, don’t seem very centered on attracting anyone. It’s very much giving a little group of buddies doing whatever (which, I guess you could argue isn’t a sin, considering it’s just a game) but it doesn’t help anything; it certainly doesn’t help anyone that might be interested in changing things or being critical of the way it’s all run now, since the vibe of the discord is just so… positive, in the way that makes me feel that criticism wouldn’t be well received at all.
I have no idea what goes on within our dom team, and that feels concerning, especially when dominance is meant to be a group effort.
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Re: Raffle Donations
(Anonymous) 2025-02-28 05:14 am (UTC)(link)Aside from that, I agree with your observations. I’ve long said to other people that Arcane is in a self-perpetuating cycle of shooting itself in the foot - as far as I can tell, they don’t care that we have a huge reputation of being the place that doesn’t give a shit about dom. It shows in the subpar raffles and the lack of movement when it comes to planning things and drumming up excitement for said things; if I may, I’d even say that the dom efforts, at least in the discord, don’t seem very centered on attracting anyone. It’s very much giving a little group of buddies doing whatever (which, I guess you could argue isn’t a sin, considering it’s just a game) but it doesn’t help anything; it certainly doesn’t help anyone that might be interested in changing things or being critical of the way it’s all run now, since the vibe of the discord is just so… positive, in the way that makes me feel that criticism wouldn’t be well received at all.
I have no idea what goes on within our dom team, and that feels concerning, especially when dominance is meant to be a group effort.