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a176
Canada6688 Posts
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Sukari
Australia183 Posts
Unless a mod watches over the chats and reviews all the chatlogs... | ||
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howerpower
United States619 Posts
On February 17 2011 08:05 masterbreti wrote: well tbh it is offensive language and should have been punished, and was. I'm sorry you don't understand how language does affect people. blizzard has taken steps to assure the community stays respectful and a firendly place. in this case you were neither in the chat. tbh i don't know the entire thing but since the word was used. someone reported you, and you deserved to be banned. well tbh this isn't high school. | ||
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101toss
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prototype.
Canada4189 Posts
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Chimpalimp
United States1135 Posts
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CrazyF1r3f0x
United States2120 Posts
On February 17 2011 08:40 Manifesto7 wrote: You didn't get banned. Don't call people fags and you won't get any mails. I think this sums the entire thing up just fine, you got a warning man, it's not the end of the world. | ||
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Tipany
United States368 Posts
On February 17 2011 11:05 prototype. wrote: Be nice guys... blizzard is new to the internet lol apparently I could not have said it better than RebirthOfLeGenD. Too many people get way too butthurt by words exchanged over the internet. | ||
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howerpower
United States619 Posts
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goiflin
Canada1218 Posts
And if you thought the game was shit in beta, why did you buy it? It's like paying to eat rhino turds, even though you knew you would hate it, and you had tried it for free already. Smells strongly of troll. | ||
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Wr3k
Canada2533 Posts
On February 17 2011 10:42 RebirthOfLeGenD wrote: You are wrong on so many levels. Censorship is rarely if ever good. Ever heard of a denotative meaning? If at some point nigger became commonplace slang for buddy, then its acceptable as being used. You know, kind of like it has been and is given a tolerance to. The same applies to faggot. Unless the CONTEXT of its usage is clearly in an insulting, derogatory, or inflammatory way then it has no reason to be censored if its in a friendly context. That is like me going out in the streets of Harlem and arresting people for hate crimes for calling each other niggaz/niggers. Denotative meaning is fucking everything. It is not what a word means but what the perceived meaning behind it is. Its like if I were to call you a mardunk. Well fuck its not a word, but if somehow that word gained a denotative meaning of you being a raging homosexual than it would obviously be bad. Fuck blatant and painful censorship. Its You should probably look up denotative. While I hate censorship as much as the next guy its fairly clear that the word fagot has a homosexual connotation when used as a derogatory term. You argue that its acceptable to call people fagots on bnet because its a cultural norm and is accepted as far as competitive, male dominated games are concerned. I simply think that its idiotic to use words which have a sexual/racial connotation for the purpose of making fun of someone and that the high incidence of this behavior in online gaming communities discourages new players who may be offended since they aren't used to this behavior. It's no different than being annoyed at how black people call each other niggers. If I was black and living in Harlem I likely wouldn't be offended, but imagine the results if you put a well educated white collar black man next to some hood rats from Harlem and they said "Whats up my nigga?". Do you really think said white collar black man would take too kindly to that? Better yet imagine a prominent public figure.. say Obama, walking into Harlem and being called a nigger... Its the same when someone new to the game comes along and gets called a fagot, it doesn't exactly make the online experience more enjoyable. Continuing this analogy Obama would represent gay individuals who both have alot to offer the SC community and haven't been exposed to hoards of people throwing the word fagot around for shits and giggles. Think about it. I could care less if the language filter didn't exist, and I'm certainly not offended by shit talking, but the person who filed the report obviously was offended or at least annoyed. If people don't want to get warnings from blizzard, they should shit-talk without using derogatory words which also have sexual connotations. Like I said in a previous post, just change fagot to "inept piece of garbage" or something, its not that hard. | ||
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stroggos
New Zealand1543 Posts
on a side note: someone told me the word 'black' was filtered by the profanity filter in sc2beta. can anyone confirm this? | ||
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Wr3k
Canada2533 Posts
On February 17 2011 11:24 stroggos wrote: haha i like being bm'd cause then i can retort by showering them with praise and good manner just to fuck with their mind. on a side note: someone told me the word 'black' was filtered by the profanity filter in sc2beta. can anyone confirm this? Black is not filtered. Would be ridiculous to do so. | ||
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goiflin
Canada1218 Posts
On February 17 2011 11:24 stroggos wrote: haha i like being bm'd cause then i can retort by showering them with praise and good manner just to fuck with their mind. on a side note: someone told me the word 'black' was filtered by the profanity filter in sc2beta. can anyone confirm this? I highly doubt it. Besides, it's not like blizzard has a stick up their proverbial arses when it comes to censoring stuff anyway (IE: worgen complaints on the WoW forums back in vanilla) | ||
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Wr3k
Canada2533 Posts
No, its not high school. Neither is it the gym, restaurants, the workplace, public places etc. but you don't see people calling each other fagots left and right there because they have the common decency to keep it civil. | ||
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stroggos
New Zealand1543 Posts
On February 17 2011 11:31 goiflin wrote: I highly doubt it. Besides, it's not like blizzard has a stick up their proverbial arses when it comes to censoring stuff anyway (IE: worgen complaints on the WoW forums back in vanilla) lmao is that to do with the whole thing with worgens being slaves and the word backwards is negrow and they drop watermelon when they die? | ||
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Eatme
Switzerland3919 Posts
For moderation to work properly it should be done like here on TL, where every case is looked over and taken into context, on bnet that's impossible. | ||
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Sadist
United States7192 Posts
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goiflin
Canada1218 Posts
On February 17 2011 11:34 stroggos wrote: lmao is that to do with the whole thing with worgens being slaves and the word backwards is negrow and they drop watermelon when they die? Yup. | ||
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mizU
United States12125 Posts
We don't know the context, or even what was said. | ||
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