I say ban it if you have to on Tempest, leave it alone on the forums and Impulse; unless it gets really, really out of control. As in "I'm going to go kill a whole load of ****ers and here's how:..." After all, we can't say "I'm going to lick the hell out of ......"
But I still don't think it's up to us to decide how a person thinks.
Officially ban racial slurs and other forms of bigotry?
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i toally agree with u Magyk.
Let ppl do what they want, i think the way it is, is fine.
as long as nothing gets to serious and just silence ppl in public.
btw if we cant say bad words were's the passion!?
i mean a sentence with the word "fuck" in it sounds WAY more fired!!!!!!
Let ppl do what they want, i think the way it is, is fine.
as long as nothing gets to serious and just silence ppl in public.
btw if we cant say bad words were's the passion!?
i mean a sentence with the word "fuck" in it sounds WAY more fired!!!!!!
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e-socrates u r???Magyk wrote:But I still don't think it's up to us to decide how a person thinks.
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Re: Officially ban racial slurs and other forms of bigotry?
No one is talking about changing the way peeps think.
It's matter of respect....The law gives us Free Speech, but you can't go around yelling "FUCK" in public...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscenity# ... cenity_law
Basically, you have the right to say it and, of course, think it, but others also have the right to not have to listen to it.
I'm really not sure where I stand on this one. I've always been one to ignore idiots when at all possible, but some of these morons are just taking it too far. That sig is rather disgusting....really. Troubled times we live in, my friends.
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It's matter of respect....The law gives us Free Speech, but you can't go around yelling "FUCK" in public...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscenity# ... cenity_law
Basically, you have the right to say it and, of course, think it, but others also have the right to not have to listen to it.
I'm really not sure where I stand on this one. I've always been one to ignore idiots when at all possible, but some of these morons are just taking it too far. That sig is rather disgusting....really. Troubled times we live in, my friends.
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LOL afro it wouldn't ban cussing. It would ban traditional derogatory words like the N word, wetback, faggot, etc.aƒrÒ wrote:i toally agree with u Magyk.
Let ppl do what they want, i think the way it is, is fine.
as long as nothing gets to serious and just silence ppl in public.
btw if we cant say bad words were's the passion!?
i mean a sentence with the word "fuck" in it sounds WAY more fired!!!!!!
Wufie being called chink is perhaps the best example of what would be the most difficult aspect of implementing a ban on discrimination, as a lot of the foul insults/terms have practically become an integral part of the remnants of the siege community sadly.
And it really isn't about forcing people to think a certain way, it is more me brainstorming (with a small addition of my own bias against racism) of ways for us to look more presentable to the noobs who frequent the server and could potentially get more involved in siege.
I do understand though that banning racist slurs and such won't actually do anything as far as increasing how respectful some people are of eachother, so I guess I just kind of invalidated my own point...
I guess I am just more curious to hear everyone's thoughts lol. I personally hate racism and bigotry, and know that the siegers who do yews such terms are doing it "in jest", but I guess my sense of humor just isn't up to par =/
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Just for the record; if we didn't show tolerance to racist people we would be just like them.However, racist people are not showing tolerance.
Sort of a paradox kind of thing.
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I wasn't planning on actually taking any action on this matter unless there was somewhat of an overwhelming majority, don't worryMagyk wrote:Just for the record; if we didn't show tolerance to racist people we would be just like them.However, racist people are not showing tolerance.
Sort of a paradox kind of thing.
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Oh, good. I like the debate we're getting out of it anyways.
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Would you seriously leave the siege community just because you can't be a complete asshole to a particular group of people? No one is talking about banning.wafflz wrote:Ban these and you'll lose a few of the more (skilled) active members of this shitty community.tens0r wrote:LOL GAY PEOPLE!\nightwatch wrote:I agree; I also think this should include slurs such as "faggot" which are derogatory towards gay people.
But seriously ban for the N word. I say start with wflz sig.
If the word "wookiee" burns your eyes, turn off your fucking chatbox; this is an internet game, there can never truly be any sort of censorship unless you turn into a game like Runescape and enable a filter that directly hampers a person's ability to communicate.