Hey everyone, my purpose with this post is not to defend or criticize, but to ask a question. Somehow the issue of cornavirus has become extremely polarized. I can understand why people would want to persuade others to downvote themes they dislike, but seeing so many virulent posts is a first for me. However, I've been around for only a few years, and I suspect that this kind of extreme polarization has occurred before. Controversy has many guises — it is always with us — and I'd be surprised if what we see here nowadays hasn't happened before over a different issue. Has polarization on this scale (over a theme or anything else) in Ludum Dare occurred before, and if so, how was it resolved (if indeed it was resolved)?

This is a question for Ludum Dare veterans as well as anyone who has some familiarity with Ludum Dare history. Perhaps there are some debates in the legacy Ludum Dare site (http://ludumdare.com/compo/) that mirror what we are seeing nowadays.