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Leave it to sex role-players to be totally fucking clueless on why SL breaks down on a cyclical basis. This has all happened before and it will all happen again.
There's a few variables at play, life is one. People's priorities shift, their free time, and how they choose to spend that free time. Our society rewards instant gratification, which is why every cycle this problem gets worse. Old internet greybeards know how to cope with this better, which is why IRC was so popular, and MUDs too.
it's real fucking simple, though. To have any functional group in these things you need social alphas, you need the tastemakers. The people who establish the cliques and set a standard for behavior. Without any pack alphas, the betas just laze about, unsure of what to do and eventually leave. You need those core personalities to establish territory and create a level of conflict to encourage interesting dynamics to form.
Unfortunatey, the sim owners are rarely the kind to have both the money & the alpha mindset necessary to manage the packs and cliques. That's how the drama always gets out of hand, when conflict resolution needs to happen the group admins are almost always too passive. They *think* it's being impartial, but it's really cowardice.
Ultimately, it doesn't matter who you side with in a conflict as long as decisive action is made and you choose someone who benefits the social atmosphere you want to cultivate in your group.
Without doms / alphas to make the decisive calls to do whatever it takes to instill a cohesive social atmosphere, people will fucking leave because the effort threshold exceeds what the betas are looking for. So the Betas that remain are people with literally nothing better to do and no Will to Power. Whenever they get busy, or find a new pPost too long. Click here to view the full text.