It's taking me a great deal of effort to circumvent the worship of the PR gods that I observed when I was staff, but it has to be done in order for me to make a proper response to this thread. The parts of me that tell me not to give people a reason to be butthurt are screaming. I am ignoring them, because I feel this needs to be said.
This is, without a doubt, the dumbest thread that has ever come into existence on this site.
From what I can tell as an outsider who has had no connection to either side of this ridiculous debate, the Sith are stepping on pretendy-fun-time toes, which is making other writers upset. These other writers are getting it into their heads to do something about this, and in return the Sith are getting upset that someone is going to step on their ptetendy-fun-time toes. Make sure to add "pretendy-fun-time" to every single RP discussion. It really gives you perspective on the meat of the argument.
This is dumb from every angle. On one side, we have the Sith. While playing bad guys and winning every time, the moment something happens that poses a genuine threat to their winning streak, it's immediately going to diminish the entire board if it goes through? You are villains. Villains lose. Good storytelling, with very few exceptions, is about overcoming adversity. The Sith are fundamentally the incarnation of adversity. I'm sick of seeing Sith players try to hide behind the idea that people getting sick of getting pushed around and deciding to push back is somehow harmful to everyone's fun. Surely it wasn't harmful to the people whose asses you keep kicking to lose every single time, but the moment you have a chance to lose, it's a problem.
On the other side, we have literally everyone else. This is a damn game. You're out for blood because of a game. You are pretending to be a mercenary or a space-wizard or an alien, and in the pretend story you wrote with the guy who is pretending to be an evil space-wizard, he beat you. This does not call for a pogrom. I'm pretending to be a kung fu space-wizard with boobs the size of a Volkswagen. If Jon, who is pretending to be a space-wizard who can Armor Lock like she had Mjolniir armor, kicked my ass, why would it be a logical step to try to erase him?
Now, I'm sure there are tons of people who think that wiping out the Sith would be a fun story and hold minimal malice about the whole thing. In fact, chances are it's a vocal minority who has any kind of toxic feelings at all. Similarly, I'm guessing that the majority of the Sith are like "Come at me, bro" and stoked that their villainy has provoked a galactic response. But for those vocal minorities? Cool your jets, kiddos. It's just a game. You are not being victimized. Your rights are not being trampled.
It's. Just. A. Game.
