Echoing that the sun/moon and escape room stuff was rather confusing, especially since for the former there seemed to be a lot of people interacting across both like normal (not everyone said what side they were on so sometimes it could only be assumed), and the latter seemed like interaction was only limited to a few people when it was also implied that you could get stuck in as many escape rooms as you wanted. Overall, I ended up just winging it for both because it was really hard to find the appropriate middle ground, but it was pretty confusing to deal with (as well as explain to friends looking at the tdm).
Regarding the Discord, I don't feel like there was as much active plotting there as was ever implied, and at this point, I feel like even chatting with other players is not really allowed anymore. I feel it was mostly used for ooc chat and discussing each others threads in a sharing context, and there was a lot of speculative discussion but rarely was there legitimate plotting that went on in it that wasn't in passing or just gauging interest. This was the norm when AIM game chats were a thing, which not everyone would participate in either but was never an issue if people didn't want to participate in group chat, and that is how I interacted with it.
Now with all this relaid emphasis on how the Discord shouldn't have plotting or discussion without also being elsewhere because it seems exclusive otherwise, I don't feel welcome to even joke about my CR with other people on the server anymore. Maybe the norm has changed, so maybe I've been using it wrong this whole time. I don't really know. Either way, each reiteration of how the Discord is too exclusive feels like I'm being told off for daring to be friendly with others and talking about our mutual CR on a platform I happen to favor, so I don't feel comfortable using it at all anymore. It was mentioned at some point that some discussion could have been taken to DMs, but a lot of my conversations were not 1:1, and I'd wanted to give others a chance to jump into discussion (which they often did) without locking it down to a hard number, as is usually the intent of a server anyway. Taking it to DMs would actually be making it more exclusive by comparison too, so I really have no idea what I'm expected to do.
All that said, I can say quite plainly that my activity the first month was due to others actively engaging me in game chat and showing an interest in writing with me on the Discord server. Since that's not allowed to be a thing anymore, my interest and enthusiasm have waned significantly, for even as much as I love the premise and have enjoyed everything in the actual plot so far. I don't use Plurk, so maybe that's my problem because I can't discuss things with groups of people that way, either plotting actively or in passing, but I personally don't have the time/energy for social media accounts, and the Discord server is what I'd been using to discuss the game outside of PMs. My most active CR isn't even on the game Discord, and I mostly communicate with them through PMs too, so. Whatever that means in context of the rest. I'm probably the square peg here though, so if I should just stop using the Discord server, then I'll deal.
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Regarding the Discord, I don't feel like there was as much active plotting there as was ever implied, and at this point, I feel like even chatting with other players is not really allowed anymore. I feel it was mostly used for ooc chat and discussing each others threads in a sharing context, and there was a lot of speculative discussion but rarely was there legitimate plotting that went on in it that wasn't in passing or just gauging interest. This was the norm when AIM game chats were a thing, which not everyone would participate in either but was never an issue if people didn't want to participate in group chat, and that is how I interacted with it.
Now with all this relaid emphasis on how the Discord shouldn't have plotting or discussion without also being elsewhere because it seems exclusive otherwise, I don't feel welcome to even joke about my CR with other people on the server anymore. Maybe the norm has changed, so maybe I've been using it wrong this whole time. I don't really know. Either way, each reiteration of how the Discord is too exclusive feels like I'm being told off for daring to be friendly with others and talking about our mutual CR on a platform I happen to favor, so I don't feel comfortable using it at all anymore. It was mentioned at some point that some discussion could have been taken to DMs, but a lot of my conversations were not 1:1, and I'd wanted to give others a chance to jump into discussion (which they often did) without locking it down to a hard number, as is usually the intent of a server anyway. Taking it to DMs would actually be making it more exclusive by comparison too, so I really have no idea what I'm expected to do.
All that said, I can say quite plainly that my activity the first month was due to others actively engaging me in game chat and showing an interest in writing with me on the Discord server. Since that's not allowed to be a thing anymore, my interest and enthusiasm have waned significantly, for even as much as I love the premise and have enjoyed everything in the actual plot so far. I don't use Plurk, so maybe that's my problem because I can't discuss things with groups of people that way, either plotting actively or in passing, but I personally don't have the time/energy for social media accounts, and the Discord server is what I'd been using to discuss the game outside of PMs. My most active CR isn't even on the game Discord, and I mostly communicate with them through PMs too, so. Whatever that means in context of the rest. I'm probably the square peg here though, so if I should just stop using the Discord server, then I'll deal.