Concerning Etiquette; Respect For The Recruits

[Simcity_4]

I thought I put my 15 dollars in a while ago when i first saw the thread, well i guess i pulled an scp rock.
I, myself, make 90% of all of my skins, and I'm a half decent skinner. I like my style because it captures medieval more. Characters should look more dirty, we are in primitive times.
I think sometimes I'm ignored because of this, people judge others like a book and a cover. I think that skins make a huge difference, although mine look better than the test skin utilized by you, I feel like that (at a like 5% difference) affects it. This accompanied with my fear of confrontation and lack of instigation skills, makes any rp a 68% chance of being instigated (thats what it feels like) although this is probably very incorrect. Nowadays I get no rp in which makes my activity stop at a brick wall. It's also hard since I'm not in a bubble like I used to be anymore, so I'm getting some withdrawals.
My knowledge of lore stretches to what I feel I need to know. I don't know the history of Chien'ji, or Wulong, or what half the magics do (well, the history and etc.). I have no idea the color range of Thylan, or how a mekket bloodline for vampirism works. I research what is common sense, I skim over the world progression posts and get what I need to know. Everything else is limited to my character's knowledge. As people in medieval times didn't have schools unless they were upper-middle class and the higher classes.
I don't know if my lore knowledge is good or bad, I got Tim approved (given after three revisions) and what does that say?
To quote Toby Fox, developer of Undertale.
"I don't know any actual programming languages LOL"
Undertale won IGN's best game of the year award.
It's weird how I did that, but hey, makes me want to use that application and apply it to the future.
I wanted to speak what was on my mind just then, while writing this (i was opening a tab to quote toby) a new player came up to me and tried to rp. I just barely caught them, and rped with them. It was fun and Tim has a friend now, it was well worth it. I told them one metagaming flaw they had (they said tims name ic without knowing it ic) and told them about ooc chat. Please don't ignore the new guys, rp with ANYONE whom is alone, new, or even in a clique. Starting on this server is rough, and I initially quit a long time ago when I was new before thinking to myself on an airplane home
"I'll give it another chance"
Massivecraft saved Minecraft for me, I wouldn't have still been playing it today if it wasn't for this server. I quit for no reason though, cause I didn't get told off at all, that stuff was super rare back then.
Thank you for reading Noah Trump's wall of text. I sounded stupid and whiny in this, I know it. But hey, who cares??? Not me, thats for sure.

 

[Magivore]

i agree with what the mod said. no offense but this experiment is full of holes. for an experiment about being against bandwagons, its pretty one-sided. Experiments are supposed to be objective and unbiased. how do you know you didnt misinterpret things because you wanted to see it that way. it sounds like that was what you were trying to do.

Plus you cant tell peoples intentions so how do you know whats black and whats green? Maybe some people want you to learn to help yourself instead of giving all the answers. are you going to fault them for that? maybe they were waiting for you to ask questions (did you?) Maybe the people who told you the answers just wanted you to shut up. maybe they did it to make themselves feel superior. would you encourage insincerity?

Plus theres a lot of things you dont tell us either Did you visit the same people or different ones? did you say the same things every time? obviously different people will give different results in different situations and thats not gonna be consistent enough to mean anything.
and we dont know what you said either. Were you being stubborn? cooperative? What do you mean "i didnt know the lore" for all we know you couldve been swearing at everyone or disrupting them and deserved to be insulted.

Plus how do you know the people in test 1 arent just assholes all the time and the people in test 3 are nice all the time? that's not people picking on the new guy or forming cliques, it's just assholes being assholes and nice guys being nice guys, nothing special about that.

Plus how do you know if these groups were friends or strangers? if its a group of friends that wouldnt be a bandwagon either, it would just be friends sticking together, nothing special, doesnt mean anything.

or maybe all of these were just isolated incidents. maybe someone was just having bad day. you never know, theres a lot you cant be aware of.

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We requested him not to post direct logs or to release names from whom he interacted with. We did not want the players involved to be "called out" or to become targets for negativity.

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This reply answers a bit of the first. I would have put up screenshots if I were allowed to. For the second paragraph, I was the character 'braden sword', which was a vampire who did not have red eyes, but I insulted no one (other than technically myself) during these entire tests. The first test was simply acting like a 'Twilight' Vampyre: handsome, strong, and the sunlight did not hurt me, I was incurable, and 372 years old. On test two, I followed the lore in extremely basic details (such as being infected by an Ogressor that used to be a wife that had two kids while infected, or had a Slizzar brother that was heir to Regalisch rule), being stubborn by trying to 'explain' to others that I was not wrong, but I did not swear at them.

Third paragraph; I never said anyone was an asshole or good guy. I approached different people for every single test. A bandwagon can still happen, whether people are friends, 'friends', or don't even know each other. The difference between test 1 and test 3 being 'bandwagons' was because of test one mostly inducing of groups failing to help or purposefully not trying to help, but test two was everyone being nice after one person decided to stand up and do such. Either way, you are right; I don't know what is going on in people's heads, which is why I purposefully have avoided saying what particular areas / people have been saying what. Even if I did show screenshots, I would have blot out the name. Everyone suffers a bad day at some point.

In regards to what was black, red and green; I feel that was a bit out of left field, as the colours are not meant to be used as to how 'nice' the person is, just what they did or did not do to help the new player. The black is meant to purposefully be vague, as that was exactly what answers I was given: vague, either by just being given the wiki page, or just telling me 'don't do that' and then leaving. It could have gone better, it could have gone worse, but because it was so mixed, it is not either of them. Green text was someone actively putting down their own time to come by and help me. Red was someone who purposefully pushed me away through words or actions, such as ignoring me despite being right next to them, or pretending to be AFK. I could tell they faked it as they all stopped moving and saying things when I approached, but were more than happy to keep role-playing when I went out of their sight.

You are correct, I don't know how people act in the community. My job was not to record how people act as individuals, just how they act as a whole, which involves me talking to everyone, no matter what I know or don't know about them. Not only this, but I am hoping for you to take note of:

These are also statistics that I, a single individual, have gotten. This is to be taken as a very broad setup, as results may vary immensely.​

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I thank you for asking such questions, as I am sure that many people have wanted answers to them, but have failed to request for them. Whether my answers are satisfying or not, those were the rules and traits I abided by to perform this test. It's anyone's choice whether they want to believe this or not, especially as I couldn't give the photo data. I don't really control how credible I can look in this case other than 'pls belive'. >3 < If you don't trust me, 'so be it,' is all I can say.

I never made this test to point fingers, so I am not saying nobles are elitist, I am not saying Vampyres are salty, I am not saying beastly races are snowflakes, etc. I made this to encourage self-awareness, by both how you act to new players, and how big a single person's influence really is to a server housing more than 1,000 different people in a week, whether their name is white, amber, blue, well-known, or completely isolated. I am not exempt from this, as I am certainly no better figure than anyone else. I just produced a whacky concept.