Trigger Warning: Word Discussion: Gaslighting

[Jake The Wolfie]

Problem: Gaslight is causing users to legitimately feel emotional stress and/or pain

Solution: Delete the word.

We've done this before and we'll do it again.

[Jake The Wolfie]

I'm not sure banning a word, or even a conglomerate of words will help with that, Flea. I'm not saying it won't help, but it seems like a moving target of "what words should I avoid to prevent harm to person X?"

[Jake The Wolfie]

petition to ban lying in mafia

[Jake The Wolfie]

I don't think the humorous approach is suitable here.
Just saying.

I'm sorry, Flea. You are a wonderful scummer.

[Jake The Wolfie]

You could hypothetically gaslight them into thinking they gambited whem they said something when they in fact did not.

[Jake The Wolfie]

Plasmalighting sounds like an awesome replacement.

[Jake The Wolfie]

I think simply calling out the underlying behavior without trying to invent new vocabulary for it would probably be the best path. People engaged in this behavior and were called out on it before 1944, they engaged in it and were called out on it prior to the rise of gaslighting as a distinct term.

I'm not sure how comparable this is to lunch (L-word is too clank n jank for me), but if a word or phrase is causing someone emotional stress and causing a state of panic in them, then the first step is removal of that word from our volcabulary until further notice. It can be reinstated if the call was bad, but we can't reinstate users we drive away because they weren't lting about their exerience.
You can reverse life in prison, but not execution.

[Jake The Wolfie]

Gaslighting may not be possible for what a player axiomatically knows, but a player could be, as an example, gaslight into flipping their read on a player.

[Jake The Wolfie]

Chainsawing sounds more like Chainsaw Defense

[Jake The Wolfie]

twisting around your little finger, taylf for short.