I’ve personally watched our veteran players opt out of leagues and tournaments locally here because of one individual. Perhaps he believes conflict to already be there, but I will lay a case for them to be mistaken. The writer is setting the stage for conflict, not resolution. That's only ever true in the most extreme cases of human behaviour, and at that point you're well into criminality, and far from bullying. The idea of beating back an aggressor, or evil person, presumes the person bullying to be evil. There is no hero needed, or fight to be had in the case of bullying. I know he doesn't state that, but I think the implication is clear. The implication is also that this writer (remaining anonymous for professionalisms sake), is going to be the hero standing up to the problem. That's not the way, and dealing with bullying requires monitoring and working with both sides to resolve issues. Off to a terrible start, both in asserting that bullying is a problem in table top gaming because there are bullies everywhere, and in taking the frankly school-boy stance that you need to stand up to it. It takes one person to stand up and take action, but if no one takes that role then nothing is going to change. Some of this bullying may come off as passive aggressive behaviors, or posts to the local community page, but it still shouldn’t be tolerated. The fact is, there are bullies everywhere, even in tabletop gaming. It took ten minutes to copy and paste individual paragraphs. I get the reason for it, as they need to make money to produce content, but I think Spikey Bits and the model they work on is no longer tenable.Īs such, I will repost the article that started the drama here, and pick out some points for discussion. It looks very much like a spam site, perhaps unfairly so as sometimes the content is good. The verdict was looks okay but maybe best to avoid. My work laptop throws up so many warnings and works so hard to load each page, I've actually written to my IT department to check if it was okay to visit the site. The pages are stuffed to the brim with adverts, so much so I cannot in good conscience recommend it to my students. The only two it flounders on are Spikey Bits and Bell of Lost Souls. ![]() ![]() In fact, in runs nearly every web site well. My work laptop is not the strongest machine around, but it runs most web sites well. There is a reason for doing so, but please indulge me some bitterness/saltiness as an ex-reader: the adverts break my laptop. ![]() I am going to take this opportunity to criticise Spikey Bits, both as a consumer and writer myself. However, in this case I can safely say I'm on neither side, and will refuse and refute any claims that there is a battle to be had in the first place. I work with children, and because of that I need to be careful about accidentally implanting ideology into their heads. It's not up to me to tell you what to think, only to present models on how to think. I'm a teacher, and therefore professionally obligated to sit on the fence. To an outsider, it's very much a storm in a tea cup. Both sides made some fairly outlandish claims, that perhaps make sense in the context of the drama. But if you must know what happened, Spikey Bits published an article about bullying in 40K. ![]() For the uninformed, well done for avoiding a waste of time that's better spent painting toy soldiers.
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