I do not want to see it removed for what is essentially some baby-tier trolling.

Exactly, it's not even good trolling, lol, as subtle as an oncoming freight train, yet some people ate it all up and fed the troll, they just laughed and laughed, they got what they wanted lol!

Petition to get a Dark Souls-like messaging system where you can only combine pre-determined words from a glossary to form your statuses in place of the status bar.

And even then we'd just get constant spam of "Giant but hole ahead".

Now, if you want my actual two cents on the topic, broadly speaking, no. Now, in the grand scheme of all things RPG, the status bar is pretty easy to ignore, and i'd even go as far as to say that the majority of people who even engage on RPG probably never make status updates, or only do so so irregularly to say that they might as well not exist. And i'd argue that the biggest point in favor of the status bar as it stands is that it doesn't really cause harm to anyone. Usually, the most you get on the status bar on a day-to-day basis are either personal updates or just shitpost wars. Which, sure, can be annoying, but aren't really harmful. I can't in good faith make the argument that just because there's a convenient way to use a communication tool to shitpost means that it hurts the community overall. Even if it's not really used for its intended purpose as it stands, the status bar also doesn't hurt anyone - nobody is slandered, scammed, or name-called, and those few arguments that do come around on it are usually resolved fairly quickly with or without the intervention of a mod. Even most trolls on the sidebar really isn't much more than just people in the internet engaging in some fairly jokey banter between one another.

So, sure. There is an argument to be made that the status bar isn't quite used all that efficiently as it could be for the purpose of advertising or discussing RPs on the site...but I don't see its current status being something that actively detracts from RPG's experience. Everything considered, it's easy to opt in and out of, and any reflection of the content on it in many cases seems to be more telling of RPG's userbase in general rather than any condemnation of it as a concept.

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Uh.

I'm gonna be real, the very idea of this topic is kind of a fever dream to me. No, my answer is no. G'day.

Wait! I HAVE A PERFECT SOULTION! Why don't we make the status bar only for... well status's I guess and make a 'social bar' above it that can be used in the way we all currently use the status bar. To be honest, since being here I just assumed the status bar was just like a live chat thingy, hahaha, that's how I use it and was the thing that made me join up in the first place as it felt like a community here!

Wait! I HAVE A PERFECT SOULTION! Why don't we make the status bar only for... well status's I guess and make a 'social bar' above it that can be used in the way we all currently use the status bar. To be honest, since being here I just assumed the status bar was just like a live chat thingy, hahaha, that's how I use it and was the thing that made me join up in the first place as it felt like a community here!

It technically isn't a live chat. People just use it that way. We used to have a chat room on the guild, but that's been replaced by discord.

@Kuro Ah, I see. Well I don't use discord so it seems that the status bar it is hahaha. Though, I did used to go overboard with the side bar, but I'm glad to say I've calmed down now hahah. I know a lot of people via PM's but the only reason I did was due to the side bar, so I think its still a good thingy

@A Ticklish Ralt Well, there is nothing stoppimg you from creating a "chat room" type thread in that case. There used to be a couple of those floating around but I haven't seen one in months, probably a few years, really.

Petition to get a Dark Souls-like messaging system where you can only combine pre-determined words from a glossary to form your statuses in place of the status bar.

And even then we'd just get constant spam of "Giant but hole ahead".

based ngl

It makes for some interesting reading material that's for sure.
Ignore it or not, either way it's whatever.

It's far more entertaining to watch shit hit the fan.

You either live to kek or die trying.

I don't think the status bar has had a serious feud in quite sometime, but even back then the mods were not keen to moderate it too heavily. I think, at the end of the day, you just gotta accept the current checks and balances. If people get really nasty someone will show up and a bonk will be issued. It is what it is. I've discussed and argued for heavier moderation in the past when those things were more common, and well, nothing really happened and honestly I was probably being too assertive in my suggestions at that point in time.

The status bar was a mistake but it's a beautiful mistake and I love it because it's fun and I can shitpost like a champ and get like 5 likes and feel accomplished before looking around at the filth pile surrounding me, lit only by the glow of my monitor, sigh, then think of the next way to fill my life with meaning. It's great.

The status bar was a mistake but it's a beautiful mistake and I love it because it's fun and I can shitpost like a champ and get like 5 likes and feel accomplished before looking around at the filth pile surrounding me, lit only by the glow of my monitor, sigh, then think of the next way to fill my life with meaning. It's great.

Other forums don't seem to have a problem with it. It's a culture problem with RPG and you can't "fix" a culture overnight.