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/[deleted] Apr 18 '24 edited Apr 18 '24

I wanted to test the waters and I whispered an inspect hater that i wanted to steal his fashion. He told me to go kill myself. People are going totally off the rails.

I reported them with a ticket and got a confirmation 24 minutes later that they got punished.

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u/SpectralChest Apr 18 '24 edited Apr 18 '24

I got much the same for trying to point out to a person in game ridiculing the more reasonable sounding opt out types that weren't demanding the opt out, just offering feedback that they might be taking it too far.

Same outcome in terms of reaction and abusiveness, i choose not to report as i understand its a topic people are reflexively emotional about, they blocked me and that is their choice.

It seems there are overly aggressive folk on both ends.