I’d like to push the opt-in / opt-out suggestion further, and say that the button should only affect people who have opted in (that is, the button bans all the opted-in players for a day, rather than taking the website down for a day). Or you could imagine running it on another venue than the Forum entirely, that was more focused on these kinds of collaborative social experiments.
I can see an argument that this takes away too much from the game, but in that case I’d lean towards just not running it at all. I think it’s a cute idea but I don’t think it feels important enough to me to justify obstructing unrelated uses of the forum and creating a bunch of unnecessary frustration. I’d like the forum to remain accessible to people who don’t think of themselves as “in the community”, and I think stuff like this gets in the way of that.
I’d like to push the opt-in / opt-out suggestion further, and say that the button should only affect people who have opted in (that is, the button bans all the opted-in players for a day, rather than taking the website down for a day). Or you could imagine running it on another venue than the Forum entirely, that was more focused on these kinds of collaborative social experiments.
I can see an argument that this takes away too much from the game, but in that case I’d lean towards just not running it at all. I think it’s a cute idea but I don’t think it feels important enough to me to justify obstructing unrelated uses of the forum and creating a bunch of unnecessary frustration. I’d like the forum to remain accessible to people who don’t think of themselves as “in the community”, and I think stuff like this gets in the way of that.