In the long ago in the beforetimes, mhoc was really super toxic, and honestly we are much better now and there community toxicity isn't the pervasive issue it used to be.

HOWEVER, I do think that making #mtwitter canon has caused certain ructions that are unhelpful and allow toxic behaviour to seep back in.

Now, I'd say at this point that I myself am guilty of this, and it's weird after an exchange to think 'wait what was the fucking point of that, i just sounded like a horrible wanker', but the thing is that because mtwitter is canon, it forces everybody to double down to a massive extreme on their views.

And not just double-down, but also to keep an eye out for anybody who diverges even a little bit, or who may have said something in the past even slightly contradictory (which will happen because #mtwitter is not a place given to considered opinion in comparison to, say, a post in r/mhoc), and so the whole cycle goes on until everybody is talking in stupidly hyperbolic and possibly slightly libellous terms about their fellow players.

Anyway, since no rules are really being broken when this particular brand of toxicity occurs, it seems to me the only way to stop it is to make #mtwitter non-canon, so people can be freer with their views without fear they'll be subject to some kind of blood-based witch-hunt*

Thanks

*sorry lpuk