After Rusty created his new site, he took a large group of actually active posters with him
Then why don't you post on the HQ faggot
Because it’s shit and inactive
Ah yes, the "No-True-Good-Poster" logic. One of DU's favorites whenever he's looking to invent reasons to ban people.
There's always this ~mysterious group of amazing posters~ who recently left, or are discussing RPG's in some utopia sub-forum. Strangely you can never name or quote a single one of them and they only manifest when discrediting people in an argument.
One day I hope to find this group of mystical posters.
The legends - if true, speak of a celestial heaven where all these grognard no-drama posters seem so happy and bright eyed. Their souls filled with wonder.. discussing all those ~amazing RPGs~ that are constantly releasing every year. Not Shartfield or Bear Gay 3.. Noo... the good RPG's.. you know the ones.. right? They must exist, this mystical group of posters seems to happily be playing them and discussing them.. somewhere.
This post is the most convincing and honest response to
smaug hyperbolic and unfounded original post
But I want to add to it. What is the main factor for me in staying on any forum are the topics and the activity. With the latter point being the most important consideration. And Codex has a myriad of both interesting and informative gaming topics that many members contribute towards and of course you also get your drama queens raging about " degeneracy " and US culture war garbage obsessed comments. But thats an Internet reality. The point Im making is you can just ignore those views and focus on the relevant posts. So for example the BG3 " bear sex scene " attempts to hijack the BG3 threads didnt change the discussion around the actual game which most people were interested in
And then I also enjoy the political debates and I appreciate the Codex policy of allowing real freedom of speech, I often dont agree with certain views and posts but I respect people's right to make those posts. Even the most vile bigotry shouldn't be banned in the context of a forum like Codex. I am sure there are other forums similar to Codex who allow this level of freedom of speech but I have never come across them
But all this of this would be moot and pointless without activity and Codex is a busy website. You can create as many new forums as you like but without user activity they become boring and echo-chambers which are the epitome of boring for me
So
smaug concern doesn't reflect the reality of what most people think about Codex, I hear some comments about
King Crispy and other moderators being accused of unfair banning of users and shutting down discussions but in the 2 years I have been active on Codex I haven't actually come across this or experienced it. So for me this is just exaggeration and more drama
In summary things like shoutbox shouldn't define what Codex is about, this is still one of the best and most busy places to discuss games and where you can share your honest opinion about politics without getting banned. And I hope Codex stays like that and doesn't ever change