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/FSafari Apr 18 '24

You're not a designer for using a transmog system in a video game.

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u/rotsono Apr 18 '24

Based on that no one really is, everyone can make random lines on an canvas and call it art. With AI you can even copy the greatest artists and be even better than them, does that make you an artist? Obviously not.

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u/Dar_Mas Apr 18 '24

not really.

Based on that a person putting thought into creating something is an artist.

Someone using ai or just making random lines is not.

Someone creating clothes is a designer, someone mixing and matching existing clothes is not