>be me>Relatively successful Indie TTRPG content creator>have obligatory Community Discord server>due to my content my Community is a weird mix of furries, troons, and chuds>chuds always chill and funny>troons always intense and vocal when they don't like something>always have to walk on eggshells around them>one day chud gives pushback>furry troon DMs me because I am the server owner>pissing and shitting in my DMs that the chud is unbearable/problematic/deplorable>me trying to be diplomatic but have to bite my tongue because i want to tell troon to stop being a faggot about it>this becomes a habit where it feels like i am playing therapist to half a dozen mentally ill furries/troonsI wish i could just firmly declare my community a chud community to filter all these retards so I don't have to deal with this shit anymore. But I can't because I just made it to a comfortable income after years of work. I never aimed to lure these degenerates in but D&D is just infested with weirdos.I yearn for the total chud victory in my community, bros.
Money Talks I guess
>>98732547I achieved generous amounts of hopium from seeing the Space King Kickstarter make some fucking bank.
>>98732520Institute a rule that members are not allowed to complain to mods via DM. Every complaint regarding the server is to be made publicly to allow people the right of reply
>>98732520I don't have a solution, but I feel for you, dawg.I quietly stopped attending meetings of the wider local RPG scene and now run exclusively for vetted buddies, because while I can tolerate individual non-insane members of various groups, you never know what randos are gonna be like. Like, I will put up with THIS furry and THAT troon and THIS chud and THAT giga-autist, because each of them is not insufferable as a whole-package, but Random Furry Troon or Random Obvious Chud from the general attendee pool was likely to be a pain in the ass. But that's something I can do because I run games for an audience of 3-6 players. you are making online content for an audience sufficient to make money, you're just stuck with whatever fuckers will be in discord, and people who are terminally online in a discord suck.>>98732912this will probably make it worse, you do not want all complaints to become public. That turns everything into a theatre. Having RUN the discord for the scene I mentioned above for a while, one of the critical things is having moderation who are socially skilled do back-room chatter, get info from and to people, without it going public. If you can keep people from knowing there's a problem, that's good, because everyone has an opinion. You do not want every microaggression to be turned into the court of public opinion, because the ones who complain the most will keep complaining and, critically, the people who want to stay out of it *will not* be willing to stand up and say "Furry Lilith has accused four people of racially-aggravated ableism this month, I think we need to ban her"
>>98732520That's what you get for making supplements for D&D
>>98732520Well, you get no pity from me, this is what you wanted, to become a cartoon capuchin monkey collecting money for dancing to an organ box. Shut up and keep dancing now.Do yourself a favor and just kick them out right now. Fuck the community, fuck the money, fuck the discord servers, kick them out. If you don't do it, they're gonna do it for you when they do an expose PDF of your ass and your lax rules, "exposing" you as a bigot and ruining your business by turning you into the main character of Twitter anyway, might as well rip off the bandaid yourself and try to control the fallout that way.
>>98732520Notepad?
>>98732912You ever read some of the drama breakdowns from the terminally online creators in the TTRPG scene? (Yes I'm aware how unhinged that sounds)These people's number one complaint is being held accountable. And they can and will make shit up about people to tear them down, defend this behavior to each other and themselves, and encourage others to make more shit up, and spread the made up shit further.The best way to deal with them is, unfortunately, doing what OP is doing. Basic appeasement with little real action. Make them feel "heard" but do nothing that pisses off everyone else.The second best is to not have a platform directly associated with you they can be on. But in today's internet landscape, doing that means turning away revenue.Keep in mind, the cliquey "indie" TTRPG scene has actually fucking ruined people's lives over Twitter drama before. Troonery is deeply connected with terminally online psychopaths. And indie scenes are abound with troonery.>>98732520The only advice I can think to give you is to never, ever, ever give mod powers to anyone you don't deeply know and trust. Troons love to get into positions of authority in order to "protect" (ruin) the online spaces they infest. And they have the ability to act somewhat sane for long enough to gain those positions.
/pol/ has leaked into /tg/ again.
>>98732520I don't believe you.
>>98733279Speaking for myself, I never really touched /pol/, I've been almost exclusively a /tg/ poster for over a decade, I just became increasingly radicalized to the right wing over the last 3 years or so. Still don't go on /pol/ I just assume they agree with me based on how annoying tranny communists seethe about them. So yeah no this isn't another board leaking here situation, if OP and some of the guys replying are anything like me we all just got fed up with noticing how many problems troons cause in our hobby communities.
>>98732961>>98733226You're right, anons. I forgot that narcissists have an uncanny talent to rile up a mob to their sideCould going the stalinist purge route work? Blow up some of their words, gaslight that they "broke the rules" (or just straight up make shit up) and ban them
>>98733226Does anyone have that massive article about the troons harassing and making shit up about some indie TTRPG guy, for the crime of making one of the rules on his forum "back your claims up with evidence please"? Google is not very helpful these days.I distinctly remember it was framed around the writer of the article wanting to find out if any of them regretted making up shit about someone and ruining his life, and all of them basically said "yes we made shit up about him, but I don't like him and so I think it was justified"
>>98733279>Muh /pol/!
>>98732520What you need to do is cultivate the chud culture but gently.
>>98733365>Waaah! Let me spam Kremlin Metodichka!>>98733410You're not heart, you're a malignant tumor.
>>98733429This sounds correct honestly. Try to get more chuds in your server so they slowly outnumber and drive out the troons. Find excuses to ban the furries and shit when they get out of line to whittle down their numbers. They mostly become a real problem when they swarm, otherwise they're generally kept harmless by a bit of light bullying.
>>98733447The BBB plan that the west needs is not "Build Back Better" but "Bring Back Bullying".
>>98733459So true, it really works. Everything started going to shit when we let women be in charge and they began gay "inclusivity" campaigns in the schools and corporate work places. Just let men bully weak men and all this shit will be fixed before long.
The chud and the tranny are two sides of the same "groomed by internet algorithms" coin, you won't win by picking sides since you'll end up being covered in shit either way. Pick the normalfag path and only appeal to the 30+ deadbeat dads and wise but long disassociated neckbeards.
>>98733555>le enlightened centrist horseshoe memeNo the two sides are not the same at all. Chuds only exist in the first place as natural pushback against the unnatural agenda-driven leftism forced down our throats.
You should appeal to the ultimate chud of chuds. Heinrich Himmler
>>98732520Don't listen to >>98733542 OP, he's trying to bait you into exposing yourself so that you can be cancelled in the Xittersphere.
>>98733564i have seen the chuds become the trannies and the trannies become chuds, they are both the same internet corrupted creature.
>>98732520My friends and I just have a blanket no politics rule for the server that's us and friends of friends. It's a good line to draw. But troons are just hard to deal with. You listen to them too much and it's mob rule. You ignore them and they will lose it and try to take down the whole thing by starting drama, a lot of it imaginary. Honestly, you're probably handling it the best way possible if you goal involves making money off of it. You talk them down a bit, let them feel heard, and don't have to ban anyone unless it's really bad.
>>98733576>>98733542 (me) I'm not trying to bait him to cancel him. I do think it is right to be paranoid and not give into what I requested. I don't think blurred out names and even profile pictures are enough. Deleted the post I made.
>>98733564>horseshoeNah. There is no horseshoe, the size of government power in an industrial society IS the left/right divide. Arguing over who the government should use that power kill is just the left eating its own, as ever.
>>98732520It's the exact same shit everywhere else, I work corporate IT, had to redesign our system twice over the pronouns, we had to make process exception to retroactively update document with gendered language even though documents must not be retroactively rewritten, at least one guy got fired over misgendering, we have to waste time "on inclusivity training", etc.Mercifully chief HR lady is a traditionalist so we're not hiring of of they/them, but she's 2 years before retirement and I know global will keep pushing for more diversity hires so I can only hope her successor will have enough spine to keep deflecting.
>>98732520How does this keep happening?
>>98733756Terminally online are seeking an online community, find one, then want it to cater to them exclusively and validate them.
>the chuds are just chill bro>except when they antagonize everyone around themWhy are /pol/tards like this?
>>98733787This doesn't work when even chill people get branded as chuds for just wanting a break from any kind of real life stuff at the table rolling dice.
>>98733787Not what was described, lying tranny.
>>98733410/pol/ ARE the normies on 4chan.
>>98733491The Skaven have fixed their women. Whites need to do the same.>>98733431>Waaah! Let me spam Kremlin Metodichka!When Redditors infiltrated the moderation of /k/, the pro-piggers took their offer to censor anyone who says anything negative about Ukraine or positive about Russia. Some may think they are Conservative, but they basedface when the mods go on censorship melties throughout the board. Through their pro-censorship positions, they proved how leftist they are, even if they think otherwise.>>98733431>>98733829If you really believed that /pol/ isn't the heart and soul of 4chan, then you wouldn't (incompetantly) imitate us to blend in here. For example, when I praise the DOGE for ending the artificial perpetuation of niggers known as USAID, I often get called a nigger in response, which is contradictory. How stupid do you have to be that you can't get an Ad-hominem right?
>>98733860You normies never made shit. You copy /b/'s work.
>>98733873>>98733860The /b/ chad vs the virgin /pol/
>>98733860You might be more convincing if you weren't the easiest outspoken retard to trace across both /k/ and /tg/. Most are at least not stupid enough to avatarfag about it. The part where you popped up in November 2024 just makes it the icing on the cake. So fuck off back to whatever shithole of a site you came from, and stop claiming a legacy that is neither true nor yours.
