Goonhub
08-26-2014, 06:01 AM
It feels to me like you got a bit sidetracked there on your Alice & Bill example. Initially it was about the creepiness of Alice's actions, then it's suddenly about "stripping away the player's control"? Yeah, I also hate it when I get bucklecuffed to chairs and kept in rooms without any way to interact with anything, or if security strip me of all my possessions/my ID and never return it, and I believe that such "cooperative play" should be enforced/encouraged more openly. However, that's nothing to do with creepiness.
I believe the 'creepy' rule should universally apply to anything sexual, but you guys should be REAL careful about non-sexual/deviant examples. The Alice/Bill example, to me, looked totally fine; what is a better place to go crazy than a barely intact space station filled to the brim with the most abusive and disgusting humans an oppressive space megacorporation could pick up from the slums? Violence and being (sort of) an asshole is part of the Goonstation experience, and to me that doesn't deviate too far from it.
By all means, keep all sexual content away from the servers; not only are people comfortable with varying amounts of sexual humour, the absence of is also forces people to be more creative. It also makes it really easy to ban potential stalkers/otherwise creepy fuckers, particularly when REAL WOMEN ON THE INTERNET!!!! are involved. Think twice about other types of "creepiness" though. I wouldn't want to be reported and banned for things like standing at the RD's office and *staring at him through his window to incite a reaction.
I believe the 'creepy' rule should universally apply to anything sexual, but you guys should be REAL careful about non-sexual/deviant examples. The Alice/Bill example, to me, looked totally fine; what is a better place to go crazy than a barely intact space station filled to the brim with the most abusive and disgusting humans an oppressive space megacorporation could pick up from the slums? Violence and being (sort of) an asshole is part of the Goonstation experience, and to me that doesn't deviate too far from it.
By all means, keep all sexual content away from the servers; not only are people comfortable with varying amounts of sexual humour, the absence of is also forces people to be more creative. It also makes it really easy to ban potential stalkers/otherwise creepy fuckers, particularly when REAL WOMEN ON THE INTERNET!!!! are involved. Think twice about other types of "creepiness" though. I wouldn't want to be reported and banned for things like standing at the RD's office and *staring at him through his window to incite a reaction.