Cleaning Up Our Collective Act

[guineapig]

Originally Posted by Loke [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If you're a full grown adult and get riled up by tasteless "humor" or speech in general, you've got a rough life ahead of you. I think hyper-sensitive, overly serious complainers are far more prevalent than truly intolerant people in our society these days.

In short, while I generally avoid using offensive race/sex/orientation related language.. I really don't care whether or not that language hurts your feelings, because if it does... you need to stop being a pussy.

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Yeah, tell me how well this works out for you in the work place.

[jilena]

You know I hear more random bigotted shit in the workplace than I ever do anywhere outside the internets. Then again I tend to avoid extremely racist or otherwise hate filled people in my personal life. Much harder to do when you are forced to work with them.

[Gwence]

I like this server and I want it to have a large diverse population

No Canadians PLEASE for the love of god NO CANADIANS!!!!!

[guineapig]

Basically, people use slurs as a simpleton way to burn others on the forums.
If that's the best you can do to win an argument then you fail.

I've been in plenty of debates with people on these forums and never had to break any forum rules in order to get my point across. I point out when people have to resort to name calling (and spell checking) in order to make a comeback and by simply calling them out, the rest of the community can see them for who they are.

I see absolutely no need to change the rules here. There are plenty of ignorant forums on the internet; feel free to "express yourselves" in those ways there.

[guineapig]

Originally Posted by jilena [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You know I hear more random bigotted shit in the workplace than I ever do anywhere outside the internets. Then again I tend to avoid extremely racist or otherwise hate filled people in my personal life. Much harder to do when you are forced to work with them.

Sadly in many places this may be true but it doesn't negate the fact that at least in theory charges could be brought against these people for doing such on the job. So actually, real life follows the same basic principals as these forums do.

Like I said, (and this isn't aimed directly at you), there are places where it's considered okay but this isn't one of them.

I personally don't get offended by much of anything but I still refuse to stoop to that level.

[Gwence]

I've been in plenty of debates with people on these forums and never had to break any forum rules in order to get my point across. I point out when people have to resort to name calling (and spell checking) in order to make a comeback and by simply calling them out, the rest of the community can see them for who they are.

Congrats that's awesome, but Eminem would tell you:

"Guineapig don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell his records;
well I do, so fuck him and fuck you too!"

[SpartanEQ]

Internet forums are like roads and highways, once an otherwise timid and "normal" person gets behind the wheel they can turn into an idiot. You have to have your own personal filter; just drive in the slow lane and let 'em go.

[jilena]

I just drive a large vehicle so it's harder for them to kill me.

[Loke]

Originally Posted by guineapig [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah, tell me how well this works out for you in the work place.

Umm, pretty good? O_o

[Danth]

If you want a pretty good forum devoid of juvenile antics, find one utilized mostly by older folks (say 40+). On one forum I follow, I haven't seen a stronger word than "damn" since I started reading it. A forum full of college-age youth (and adults not much older) will unsurprisingly harbor a lot of juvenile behavior. On the other end of things, find a forum frequented primarily by 12-16 year old kids and it'll make THIS board look like a haven of logic and rationality by comparison. I don't fault juveniles for acting like such; however, the older adults (say, older than mid 20's) who continue acting like that ought to be ashamed of themselves.

I've used internet discussion boards for a long time, since the early 90's--back when usenet newsgroups were all the rage (remember alt.games.everquest?). Many other folks reading this forum probably remember those days. Then, as now, the worst boards were the un-moderated boards, and particularly those boards associated with topics frequented by younger posters. Most forum readers know the same small, vocal group creates a major portion of the problem posts. That's true on any forum. Some directed moderation can go a long way towards setting an example for behavior.

Posts devoid of content--particularly posts utilizing 'memes'--annoy me more than language used. Lots of young to middle age folks swear in casual conversation. Only 'mentally handicapped', on the other hand, constantly interject with empty noise. 'In before the lock', 'cool story bro', and such worthless drivel fall into that category.

Danth