If no one communicates to me that I am to be attacked how am I to know to submit a counter? I have actually asked this same question before so that I could counter.

And I wrote 'aimlessly running around doing backstage attacks'. It wasn't an attack on a particular person/s. Just a general statement expressing my opinion on someone who would use it as an excuse to gain 'story advantage over someone'. The segment option can be abused that way, and in that regard it's a dirty way to fluff your own characters.

Eg. Atara week in and week out inputs segment attacking Person A then uses segments as leverage. Person A was never consulted, Persona A has no tie to Atara, Person A in order to sell has to change and adapt their own story possibly ditching ideas with other people to play nice and cater to someone who never consulted them.

Or Persona A can no sell thus wasting all Atara's effort to be active in the community

Pretty much like you just said, it forces people to interact and do things they may not be comfortablle with or it forces them to have to be an ass and dismiss things.

I prefer it be discussed with me, but it's not in the rule so I bitch privately about it and still try to play along.