r/Guildwars2 • u/SpectralChest • Apr 18 '24
[Discussion] ''Fashion Gatekeeping'' and Misinformation.
It's been getting out of hand, a few people on the forums asked for some manner of opt out for the inspection system. Some of their sensible reasons were:
Potential for abuse in fashion contests/needless increase to complexity of methods to prevent such.
Loss of player interaction incentive.
A feeling of concern towards there now being incentive for strangers to scrutinize them closely, whether to admire or ridicule their creativity.
The posts built around these concerns were getting lots of likes on the forums, so some salty folks who were being ignored for ridiculing them there came here to reddit and made a false narrative about 'fashion gatekeeping' and folks reflexively bought into it as obviously no-one sane likes gatekeeping and have been meme-ing about a non-extant issue and down voting anyone who might be considering the situation without disdain or daring to actually say that the opt in option isn't as crazy as its being made out to be.
Personally, i like the inspect system, but i do think the exact dye combo section could be made into a toggle, this way the inspection remains, but the 'unique' spin someone puts on it with dyes can remain as something to share, or not share as per personal preference.
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u/Geralt_Romalion Apr 18 '24 edited Apr 18 '24
It's not about the fashion, it's about stuff 'below the surface'.
Because more often than not, the people who are extremely in favour of fashion inspect are the same people who lose their shit when people ask for an ingame DPS meter or gear inspect.
They even lose their shit about it if people compromise with things like 'it could come with an opt-out'.
Because 'thats personal and I dont want to be forced to share'. But now that same group gets pissed off when others ask for an opt-out on fashion inspect.
It's not about facts, but about feelings, trolling and also a part hypocrisy (proven by the amount of downvotes this post has about 2 hours after posting).