leilei {l Wrote}:I don't post progress much because i've got a few obsessed people that take my WIPs (and UNRELATED FANART WIPs) and start mass-tagging uninvolved people as if they're marketing on behalf and I don't want to feed them. :/
Sorry not familiar with your work. I'm guessing you are an artist based on the above? That is really unfortunate you feel you can't release stuff because of the reaction. we really need more artist work in FOSS games. :/ Are they overbearing fans or are they being critical to your work? If the former, I'm not at all familiar with the situation as I don't have followers, but have you tried talking with them to tone it down?
leilei {l Wrote}:There's also a few social issues on this forum, like whenever
any discussion of gender(TW: transphobia) or
sexism happens. You can't simply brush that under the rug.
On the second link, saying that was "brushing it under the rug" seems to be a rather unfair accusation, don't you think? It was starting to go off-topic, from FOSS games in media to Sexism in FOSS, and further discussion of sexism was proactively offered through the creation of a new thread in one of the indicated boards. I mean if that discussion had continued it A) would hurt the discussion of sexisum since people wouldn't beable to find it easily and B) hurts the current thread since it derails it. Both those would apply here as well though less so as you could equate that sexism is part of the cause for the decline in FOSS activity. But seriously if you have some stuff to discuss about sexism in FOSS make a thread, put in specific examples, and we can try to formulate solutions. As someone who wants to get some of his ideas into functioning FOSS projects I would love to hear balanced ways to improve the experience for any participants.
I'm rather confused about the first link as I read it at the time is was happening and again just now and it looks like a perfectly civil conversation. The only thing I can think you mean is that some people there expressed the opinion that more than 2 genders is purely politically driven. To call that transphobia seems disingenuous as it isn't an attack on transgendered people, but the idea of transgender. A racist attacks a person based on their race. A person who attacks the idea of race isn't a racist.
Anyway in general I haven't seen any brushing under the rug of topics around here except anyone trying to sell/talk about proprietary games. XD I've seen sweeping under the rug in other communities and that involves actively deleting posts, hiding topics in secondary out of the way places, and the like. Actually was just watching a youtube video about heavy community censoring (FYI, not a FOSS game):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nzJQE3w1o4TL;DR please, please do create threads dedicated to the above topics if you feel they are an issue that can be benefited by discussion.
Also I am getting very off topic... Was just feeling distressed by the defeatist sound of your post. :/
Please don't ban me mods. ;.; O.OOn topic: How does one combat the current slump? Just wait it out? Do marketing, social networking, or something? I mean most people even among the internet crowd don't know what Open source means let alone the FOSS acronyme.