Goonhub
11-24-2014, 03:44 AM
the fundamental idea of removing things from the game because they allow weird/creepy behavior is entirely futile simply due to the number of things in this game are both important and long-standing features and also have the potential for unbelievable creepiness.
This is a game where you can slip sedatives into people's drinks, you can tie them up, you can strip their clothes off, etc. There's a point at which you have to stop and go "Is removing this going to actually reduce the overall level of creep possible in this game?", and I think the answer is pretty much always going to be No just because of how much there is. The solution is and always has been banning people who do it. You don't see it especially often not because the potential isn't there but because it is punished harshly.
I mean, shit, there were people arguing that you shouldn't be allowed to throw money at people because they do that in strip clubs. I don't think any modifications should be made to the game to "reduce creepiness" because I don't think that it's ever going to actually accomplish that. People who are creeps are creeps for about five minutes, and then they're banned forever. There's no reason to make any kind of additional changes to protect against them because it's a small problem that is completely impossible to eliminate entirely.
This is a game where you can slip sedatives into people's drinks, you can tie them up, you can strip their clothes off, etc. There's a point at which you have to stop and go "Is removing this going to actually reduce the overall level of creep possible in this game?", and I think the answer is pretty much always going to be No just because of how much there is. The solution is and always has been banning people who do it. You don't see it especially often not because the potential isn't there but because it is punished harshly.
I mean, shit, there were people arguing that you shouldn't be allowed to throw money at people because they do that in strip clubs. I don't think any modifications should be made to the game to "reduce creepiness" because I don't think that it's ever going to actually accomplish that. People who are creeps are creeps for about five minutes, and then they're banned forever. There's no reason to make any kind of additional changes to protect against them because it's a small problem that is completely impossible to eliminate entirely.