mrimatool
Lore Developer
Your guy, Toolio <3
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Post by mrimatool on Jul 1, 2014 21:40:56 GMT
Dalek ^^^^^^^ just voiced everything I've been thinking, it's the internet, if we have to tell people to be careful about what to say, where do we draw the line? Censorship? What if somebody hailing from an Asian country comes on the server, and I make a joke and he gets offended? Should I be punished? Should he? Of course not, it's the internet, I don't think we can start telling people what they can or cannot say, it's a dangerous path to start down.
It is, however just my opinion.
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Post by Silver116 on Jul 1, 2014 22:28:54 GMT
Censorship isn't a bad thing. In fact, people are censored all the time on this server, and it's been done for less than a rape joke. I don't have much of an opinion on whether the rape joke was acceptable or not, but multiple people found it offensive enough to speak out against it. I think that at least deserves an apology and a stern talking to, especially for a staff member. And if anyone makes a joke that somebody gets offended by, they should at least apologize and avoid making a similar joke in the future.
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Post by jackboot on Jul 4, 2014 23:45:51 GMT
Dalek, I'm not going to ignore someone who makes a graphic rape joke in a community I'm trying to participate in. I'm going to bring up a complaint about it or leave. Those are the two options I have, full stop.
I'm not demanding he be banned, I would have been happy with an apology rather than a justification over it. As it stands I'm simply going to ignore Majestic when possible and not participate on the server when he's online if I have other things I feel like playing.
And oh my God, don't threadjack this into a debate about censorship. This is a private owned server, not the US congress; you can be censored as much as the owners want to censor you, but none of this is relevant.
Its been ages since this incident, so there's not really much to say or do about it if the administrators are done with their action on it.
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mrimatool
Lore Developer
Your guy, Toolio <3
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Post by mrimatool on Jul 4, 2014 23:52:53 GMT
Jackboot I bring it up because as one of the three founders of the server, I thought about it a lot when we first started.. I was just stating my opinion.
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Chaznoodles
Moderator
Broodhost
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Post by Chaznoodles on Jul 7, 2014 13:54:18 GMT
In my personal opinion, and something I tried to reinforce while I hosted, anything relating to sexual activities should not be present on the server. It's all fair and good to suggest that something has happened IC, but that's how it should stay. This extends into OOC too. In this case, the comment pertaining to Majestic's mother should never have been made in the first place, but nor should the rape comment. It's not acceptable in any case to bring negative points from other players' personal lives into a video game.
Tl; dr: Keep negative comments to yourself. Think about what you say before you say it.
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