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The issue is, because the way the general is currently structured is that the thread and discord is so divided that most of the discord users treat the thread like a joke. The fact that you have an identity and reputation you have to protect or otherwise be tarnished is so far from what originally began as an anonymous meetup that it is so far removed from what was originally a simple meetup it is quite literally parroting a reddit page or any other non anonymous forum. I am not against discord as a tool. Sure its easy to set up and keep in touch and there is nothing wrong adding friends in vrchat, but creating a discord *group* is when it takes that to the extreme. To be honest at that point because everything is concentrated into one group where you are responsible for what you say it causes fear of speaking out because why would you want to risk social suicide online when you already have irl? I am pretty sure it's why the first group got deleted but we can see now that it will never go away because there will always be some power hungry attention starved anon willing to jump in to fill the vaccum to become the new discord leaderfag. And now it's become so bad to the point where any valid criticism of the general is instantly branded as jelly, that it will continue to devolve until the only /vrg/ about /vrg/ is the name. All that really needed to be done for meetups would be for someone to drop an instance link and tell people to join at a certain time and eventually mutual friends would fill in. Regarding non thread users, it should be standard for everyone joining a "meetup" to set their status to red until they leave the instance, and anyone who doesn't would only then be kicked. It's not that complicated and unfortunately people are A. Too lazy to actually try and make changes or B. Support the way things currently work which will actively contribute to the slow but sure downward spiral.