Riot / Discussion

This is the discussion related to the wiki page Riot.

Rewriting the Riot act

r_b_bergstrom 22 Jul 2019 05:38

I'm not sure I particularly have the time or interest to tackle this one myself, but I think it would be a good idea for someone to rework this page some time. There are a few statements that are bordering on political, and not necessarily supported by the wikipedia article listed as the only source reference. Plus, we're missing out on covering sports riot, police riot and prison riot, all of which seem like they might have interesting gaming potential. So it would be cool to see some changes here. If anyone wanted to try to give this page an expansion, clean-up and referencing, I'd appreciate it.

I don't want to do it myself, mostly because I know my personal bias would creep in and run it toward the opposite "eat the rich" end of the political spectrum. I may find it hard to be objective, and I don't want to accidentally start a revision war on the page.

The Colonel 22 Jul 2019 14:38

Added the extra categories - in summary anyway.
Might be missing something, but it feels to me like we are reasonably well tied to the wiki article.
When de-stubbing the article I tried to aim it at a fairly objective position - that rioting was an often understandable but almost never productive response to social stress. We had an attempted drive-by politicisation from someone who seemed to like the idea of rioting, so I wouldn't be at all surprised to find the "whiff of grapeshot" tendency turn up eventually as well.
Certainly for gaming purposes the "rioting makes things worse" would seem to be the most viable position - but then I have been on a Deus Ex marathon recently…