Hopped onto Twitter for a DM and saw a QRT from a friend responding to a ban that got some folks up in arms. So I'm gonna vent a little about it. 😌
To give a small synopsis:
- Player was given a ban from the events run by that TO.
- Player was banned due to their attitude once they lost their tournament match including: Calling the game trash, claiming another game's superiority over the game being played, talking poorly about other players, taking credit for the TO's successes, using "gay" as an insult. This had been going on for months, in and out of DMs, and long after tournaments are over.
- Friend's QRT says "Normalize banning people from your tournament because you don't fucking like them and think they're bad for your community."
Impressively (negative), certain folks in the FGC decided to get up in arms by hyper-focusing on "banning someone you don't like," and nothing else said or surrounding this. Really unsurprising, those folks are simply responding "Instead of be a [pick your derogatory term], run the set!"
And therein lies a problem in some FGC members' minds that think "fight in the game" is the solution always.
Those folks need to realize: Keeping it in the game means keeping ALL elements in the game.
The moment someone steps beyond the game and makes a worse experience for folks outside of the match, they're opened up to repercussions outside of the game for their actions outside of the game.
There's people who I do not enjoy playing because they do things like yell in my ear right next to me or called me bad, regardless of win or lose status. I will not play these folks, or in one case the entire game they're making again. On a personal level: They were bad for the community (of just me) and I've banned them out of my space I have autonomy over. I also acknowledge outside of me, others folks may be fine with those actions so they wouldn't be "bad" for a bigger community. If folks start voicing displeasure, then we have to move on to next steps.
There's folks who have started off by acknowledging "I say a lot of pretty negative stuff while playing." I wish them a different outcome but they've shifted that outside element in-game.
Just don't be an ass is always an easy thing to say, but especially don't be negative to the person running events for you and others with their time, money, and passion.
