>>55423635Would you prefer if people outright RPed in the thread instead cause that's their main way of writing with others rather than back and forth solo pastebin fics? Adding someone somewhere to talk to them in DMs, especially about things people don't want in the thread either cause "nobody fucking asked" and just maybe being off-topic is not a bad thing.
Group servers, shit like the OC porn exchanges and all the other shit that WAS wrong with the last /tog/ ARE BAD but it's not a default outcome just cause people decide to talk in DMs about stuff nobody else wants cluttering the thread and such. It's only bad when it leads further down the slope and again results in shit like private clique group servers and shit.
No one is gonna be outright friends with literally everyone in a general/thread, no one is gonna 100% of the time talk to every single person outright either. There will always be a level of bias, normal people gravitate to specific individuals within a gathering and mainly talk to them. But as long as they aren't being some outright obnoxiously exclusive clique faggot it's a non-issue. And those kind of people are easy to spot as they actively ONLY reply to SPECIFIC people and such. Everything is a matter of a case-by-case basis.
>>55423706Just don't make a group server then, it's not that difficult. DMing is not the same thing as literally making a group server to host as a place for a clique, jesus christ.