Social Survey: Why people are loosing interest to Discovery?

[Zephyranthes]

Yeah, I'm just driving by momentarily to post here. It's astounding how nearly all of you people rightly point out that the community is the issue and then do shit all to improve it. The same toxic behaviors, the perpetual "old boys' clubs" that have plagued this place since the beginning, the inability of admins or moderators to do anything to curb circlejerk groups and malicious activity just because it's not posted about directly on the forums, and a complete lack of care for actual bigotry and harassment players have experienced from factions and individuals alike have all contributed to a significant amount of players leaving and not returning.

It was never Discovery's gameplay changes or fluctuating standards of roleplay that really drive people away and keep them away. I don't recall people avowedly swearing off of Disco because of a balance change. People took breaks, cooled down, and came back after a while. I did this many times. It was always the people, the problematic members of the community that drove other members away and kept them away. Little cabals of assholes trying to affect the server for their own benefit at the cost of others. Conspiring to gank others, to deny roleplay opportunities and freedom to others, and to just harass anyone who was different. "Compassionate" was never a word that factored into a description of Discovery. It's worse than a LOT of other communities of similar size. And it's only been shrinking as the only people who could be interested are consistently driven away.

Instead of looking for some hypothetical, undiscovered player base, you should be focused on why so many have never come back after leaving. I'm afraid most people will lack the perspective to see the issues until Discovery is already dead.