Someone Nailed the Limits of Inclusion

I seldom do 'me too' posts, but an article by the Angry DM caught my eye.

He's basically saying He doesn't  give a flip about inclusion with respect to his gaming group. He picks his friends and you don't have a right to be among them.

I couldn't agree more. I can however take it perhaps further.

I think most victim groups are (if not originally self created) self maintained in today's world. Inclusion is a problem only because such people refuse to be individuals and insist on being a group instead. And without fail, those groups are ugly and selfish artificial creations. They are in effect not asking me to treat them as they deserve- they are demanding that I treat them according to the idealized state that they claim is owed to their group.

I will treat any individual acting as an individual with the amount of respect they earn. Self identified social victims need not apply. If you define yourself as something less than human, I (for reasons completely different than yours) will agree.

Death of RPG Bloggers?

From this it appears that there was something of a meltdown at the RPG Blogger's Network.

I imagine most reading this know who they are (there's a link to them on the right), basically they work as a sort of dashboard for various RPG blogs, posting the first few lines of a new post from their members in a single place allowing readers a one-stop 'shopping' exerience to decide what to read (or not) that day.

I've been a member for most of this year. In general it was a good experience, and I have little to complain about. It drove a fair amount of traffic and I hope it continues under new managment.

It was a useful stop for me. Left to one's own, the tendency is to hit your favorite links an stop. RPG Blogger opens that up a bit and I've read interesting things that otherwise I would have never saw.

The cause of the series of events resulting in the current crisis are unknown to me in detail. The general direction however is quite familar. The Internet runs on conflict, and conflict found its way to the management of RPG Bloggers.

I think it likely that it started early. When I first joined they had a section set aside for what they considered the best current blog entries. I was on the list once (that I know of), for a couple of hours or so before I was removed. Somewhere along the way, the section was removed completely.

That sort of thing indicates strong disagreement, and it looks like it overwhelmed them at last. Here's hoping that they can find new management, and that they can carried it forward with more agreement, and do so in a neutral way that allows it to be a hub of different viewpoints.

Update: The best blog entries list has been explained as a techinical issue, and not one of editor disagreement. I see no reason not to accept this, so the above 'sign of disagreement' should be ignored. Such is the danger of an outsider reading tea leaves.