Goonhub
11-19-2016, 03:26 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-19-2016, 03:27 AM by Roomba. Edited 1 time in total.)
Here's my take on it:
If people are willing to talk about [X] for 8 pages, then that means people have 8 pages worth of feelings over [X] that they would like to discuss. You may disagree that [X] is worth 8 pages of discussion, but that doesn't change the way other people feel about it.
We lose nothing by having the community discuss them - it helps people understand each other, and establishes a track record of the admins listening to players on such matters. Are you not personally offended by [X]? Do you not feel like [X] is worth making a fuss over? That's an opinion you can freely raise in said discussions. It does no one any good, however, to use said opinion to shutdown any such discussions before they occur. If you don't have a strong opinion about the subject one way or the other, you're free to sit out of said discussions.
Also to those complaining about people trying to score SJW points, have you actually read the threads in question? 80% of the thread is people going 'I'm not offended' and the remaining 20% is people going 'I'm not personally offended, but..." Assuming that people are taking their position simply to score imaginary internet points and not because they're providing their honest opinion on an issue that was brought up adds nothing to the conversation and merely devalues everyone who participates in it, including yourselves. If you want others to take your arguments in good faith, you have to be willing to extend that same courtesy to them.
If people are willing to talk about [X] for 8 pages, then that means people have 8 pages worth of feelings over [X] that they would like to discuss. You may disagree that [X] is worth 8 pages of discussion, but that doesn't change the way other people feel about it.
We lose nothing by having the community discuss them - it helps people understand each other, and establishes a track record of the admins listening to players on such matters. Are you not personally offended by [X]? Do you not feel like [X] is worth making a fuss over? That's an opinion you can freely raise in said discussions. It does no one any good, however, to use said opinion to shutdown any such discussions before they occur. If you don't have a strong opinion about the subject one way or the other, you're free to sit out of said discussions.
Also to those complaining about people trying to score SJW points, have you actually read the threads in question? 80% of the thread is people going 'I'm not offended' and the remaining 20% is people going 'I'm not personally offended, but..." Assuming that people are taking their position simply to score imaginary internet points and not because they're providing their honest opinion on an issue that was brought up adds nothing to the conversation and merely devalues everyone who participates in it, including yourselves. If you want others to take your arguments in good faith, you have to be willing to extend that same courtesy to them.