Goonhub
08-27-2014, 12:58 AM
I've already covered why sexual material is covered under an absolute ban, and my understanding is that the reason the blanket ban extends to any mention of genitals or genital-related activity, even if it's not meant to be 'sexy', is that you can't determine how people parse any given communication. It only takes one soccer mom seeing the wrong parts of someone posting that horrible woody fanfic on the server before she calls her friend the lawyer in a fit of rage, and suddenly our server owner's life becomes more complicated than we'd like it to be.
And yeah I agree that 'creepy' is a really unuseful word for what we're trying to communicate, but given that this is the fourth page of the thread so far without a solution, I don't feel dumb that I wasn't able to come up with a better one.
And yeah, fff.jpg gets bandied about IRC a bunch. Simple distinction: IRC isn't the game server. The rules in the IRC channel are significantly less restrictive.
Racism isn't necessary on the servers simply because if you want to toss insults at someone, you can stand to be at least a little more creative and funny than dragging out the old tired 'ironic' racism. It doesn't come across as cool or edgy, it's just... unoriginal. That on top of being broadly offensive, the admin staff decided it shouldn't be allowed here. Get creative with your insults! It doesn't take a lot of effort, the other day I called someone a malodorous model train enthusiast, and their reaction was hilarious. That took like four seconds to come up with, so you could probably blow it out of the water if you tried even slightly.
And yeah I agree that 'creepy' is a really unuseful word for what we're trying to communicate, but given that this is the fourth page of the thread so far without a solution, I don't feel dumb that I wasn't able to come up with a better one.
And yeah, fff.jpg gets bandied about IRC a bunch. Simple distinction: IRC isn't the game server. The rules in the IRC channel are significantly less restrictive.
Racism isn't necessary on the servers simply because if you want to toss insults at someone, you can stand to be at least a little more creative and funny than dragging out the old tired 'ironic' racism. It doesn't come across as cool or edgy, it's just... unoriginal. That on top of being broadly offensive, the admin staff decided it shouldn't be allowed here. Get creative with your insults! It doesn't take a lot of effort, the other day I called someone a malodorous model train enthusiast, and their reaction was hilarious. That took like four seconds to come up with, so you could probably blow it out of the water if you tried even slightly.