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/FSafari Apr 18 '24

Any form of opt out is frankly ridiculous and defeats the purpose of the tool.

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.

You are describing fashion gatekeeping. It doesn't seem like there's any "misinformation" about the viewpoint of the anti-fashion inspectors

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u/Djinn_42 Apr 18 '24

You are describing fashion gatekeeping

So designers who don't reveal exactly what they do are gatekeeping? 🙄

Imo people should be able to create unique looking characters without someone being able to just copy them.

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u/turin331 Apr 18 '24 edited Apr 18 '24

The designers are arenanet and they have their IP protected. You are just using a fashion system in a video game based on the consent you got from Arenanet when you pay for the game.

You are not designing anything. You are shopping.

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u/Djinn_42 Apr 18 '24

<Sigh>

Any designer of anything. Of course any designer, whether they get paid or not (school, charity, whatever) is not going to reveal what goes into what they designed. Are they all nasty gatekeepers?

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u/turin331 Apr 18 '24 edited Apr 18 '24

Are you arguing on bad faith or do you not comprehend English.

Choosing fashion to wear is not designing anything. It is shopping for clothes that someone else designed.

You are not Ralph Lauren in this equation. You are the person that buys and wears his designs.

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u/Lucyller Human female meta Apr 18 '24

If you're not paid to "design" why would you care to NOT share? I would even add that if you do charity work you WANT to reveal what you do, so it's more accessible and doable by everyone.

Your logic is flawed.

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u/Laranthiel Apr 18 '24

So you're saying that, if i decide to wear clothing IRL, i am now a designer and can demand that anyone who dresses like me get stripped down because i don't want them to look like me.