pmsl. This aint society, its an irrelevant forum, where people can make suggestions and other argue against them.
Suggestion: Stop making 'He killed me' threads...
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pmsl. This aint society, its an irrelevant forum, where people can make suggestions and other argue against them.
You use that word "fascist" but I don't think you know what it means.
In response to everyone and everything on this thread... Wow....
Back on topic I've just spent about 20 minutes looking through old threads about deaths, insurance, general whining and other such matters.
90%ish are first-posts so telling to forum to stop making them is kinda a moot point regardless of how anyone feels about it.
Back on topic I've just spent about 20 minutes looking through old threads about deaths, insurance, general whining and other such matters.
90%ish are first-posts so telling to forum to stop making them is kinda a moot point regardless of how anyone feels about it.
You see, there's this misconception that one has some sort of entitlement simply because it's "the Internet", whereas this forum belongs to a company, does it not? Of course behavior can be enforced. If not, the owner of a given forum opens themselves up to all sorts of litigation. It's all very well to cry "fascism!" when one bears no responsibility.
I can understand that the company has to filter out some of the stuff that would otherwise compromise itself, because it itself is subject to a larger controlling entity that is enforcing a ruleset. But that isn't always the case, and the fact that you are posting threads demanding others to stop posting certain content that you disapprove off on a personal level is the crux of matter.
Ian Phillips
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A discussion of facism is totally out of place here.
Please keep on topic.
Please keep on topic.
Respectfully to disagree. And here's why:
The use of the word "fascism" is highly relevant to the discussion because it is an emotionally loaded word that appears to have been in the OP to slant the discussion. That's an elementary debating trick called "well-poisoning" - in which you label something with an opprobrious adjective that makes it harder for someone to accept the other position without implicitly accepting the label. It's one of many techniques of arguing in bad faith, and pointing it out is not only on topic, it's critical to understanding how the discussion of the topic has been approached.
Tl;dr: Meta-discussion about a topic is always "on topic"
Ian Phillips
Volunteer Moderator
Read the OP and stay on topic or the thread will be, respectfully, closed.
Sorry, the original post had nothing to do with fascism either: Here's the original OP:
I hate griefers, I'm a fan of PvP. I don't mind being killed. Ever.
But most griefers, or a lot of people who enjoy killing players (not necessarily griefers) DO get a huge amount of pleasure of 'SOME COMMANDER JUST KILLED ME' or 'SOMEONE KILLED ME SO WE SHOULD FIX GRIEFING' threads.
There's a lot of them. And I sympathise with the need to post.
However, I have a basic rule of combat, unless it's somebody I know (a friend), I don't communicate. I don't answer. EVER.
And that includes writing a post on the forums, on facebook group or reddit (not that I use reddit).
Because I know they'd enjoy that.
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Still no idea how that came to be understood as controlling or trying to impose my view, it was simply advice to not feed your killer's ego.
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On a serious note, unless the mods decide to take down like 1/3 of all posts, I think it's unlikely that we can stop those posts.