ur right tho, i think the admins have deluded themselves with the idea that they have to protect the servers by filtering the internet; an impossible task that cannot be accomplished. i think the best way of stopping people from experiencing "racism" is by having a button to mute (which we have) whatever asshole is typing slurs in chat. the idea of "creating a safe environment for new players" is bullshit, if people are so dumb as to think an entire mod is racist because they see one idiot in chat and therefore they stop playing, fuck em. real reason players don't continue on is the learning curve or maybe they just don't like it.
plus, why is it only racism that was banned, not bigotry in general? why can we say bundle of sticks on the servers? hypocritical as fuck, but at least the badmins are self aware about it.
Is it so controversial that I just don't want people calling eachother friends in chat? Is that demanding too much? I'm honestly curious why you think it's something impossible that cannot be accomplished. It's not about creating a safe zone, it's about creating an enviroment that's not toxic. At least personally it doesn't seem like too much to ask for, you can always use comms outside of the game if you want to banter with your friends or ride your friends or whatever, no? If you want to use in-game chat, you have to follow some rules, is what it is.
I already explained why I focused on racism in this rule change - because it's 1. a new rising tendency, 2. not socially acceptable, 3. something that hasn't taken roots yet and I believe (aka its imo) that we can stop it from becoming part of every day server interaction. It was merely a practical decision, I know that trying to tackle homophobic slurs would be much harder because people who know me know that I throw bundle of sticks around whenever agitated, it's too ingrained in gaming culture. But I won't believe you if you'll tell me that racial slurs have the same status as "bundle of sticks" or the like. They're just distasteful.
sure, i understand that plenty of folk would look at this post and say "wow what a pseudo-intellectual justification for using racial or other slurs", i'd say that any fault on my part lies in taking these things too seriously as a sort of philosophical or similar microcosm even though we're a bunch of spergs on the internet, rather than being some heinous mouthpiece for some imagined heinous and homogeneous group of genuine racists, bigots and misanthropes.
I would maybe agree that we're taking things too seriously, but that change didn't come from
nothing at all, this is just cringe-worthy server behaviour that I don't like. We just reacted to an increase in tendency.
