Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28979424-20171207172447/@comment-4974000-20171208010829

The thing is, though, you're not entitled to people's participation just because they have some participation to spare. You have to provide a space where participation is a positive experience, and you have to keep on providing it to keep them. People would do both if the two experiences were even nearly as positive. Probably many of those fly-in-fly-out types started out visiting both every day, as I still do. But already there are things I would say there but not here, and unless a lot changes here that will probably become more and more the case.

At the risk of raising the elephant in the room, SN appears to be played predominantly by women, and online gaming generally is not a particularly emotionally or physically safe place for women. While the game does not seem to attract the kinds of issues of more "unisex" games, we are not divorced from that context. Women want safe spaces to game. An incident like last week is only mildly damaging, until you add in the lack of moderation. And I don't think the drift will change until that need for safety is addressed.