List of words that are not allowed in this game

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Sayyid wrote:

You are aware that the first sentence of your link contradicts what you said immediately before it, right?

Not exactly, it refers to a 'person or group'. So that means it doesnt have to target anyone specifically.

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Victoria_GGG wrote:

Hi everyone,

I refer you to this post pinned at the head of the forum:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/514309

Just remember, hate speech does not need to be specifically targeted at a person or intended in a derogatory manner to be hate speech. It is, by its very nature, hate speech.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech

That is to assume there are no black people playing PoE. I understand at least some of them love to call each other that banned word. I could give a link to some of Dave Chapelle's stand up comedy.

Hey... If I did, would you remove the link? He uses the word extensively. Same with pretty much all the black comedians.

Oh well... this issue is a very silly one.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

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Idioticus wrote:

Hey... If I did, would you remove the link? He uses the word extensively. Same with pretty much all the black comedians.

Oh well... this issue is a very silly one.

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/535523

Hate speech at it's finest.

Equality man. If white people aren't allowed to use the 'N' word, black people shouldn't be either.

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Victoria_GGG wrote:

Just remember, hate speech does not need to be specifically targeted at a specific individual in our community or intended in a derogatory manner to be hate speech. It is, by its very nature, hate speech.

Hate speech is a natural phenomenon that can be objectively defined? I laughed.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

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Idioticus wrote:

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/535523

Hate speech at it's finest.

Actually it's an exercise in irony and the potency of words depending on context

Charan... I expected more of you.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

and it's external to this site.

of course, but what's the point of enforcing

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A) Contain hate or discrimination
For example: racial slurs, sexist comments or discriminatory comments.

in this forum, if I can just link my hate speech to an external site. If it's against their rules, they should also remove links to things they don't want their forum to be a part of.

If I linked to.. I don't know, some form of Hitler youth site, wouldn't that be just as bad as if I had posted the thing from the site directly to this one?

My point: being external to this site should have absolutely no value, if the link for this external thing is in this site.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

The OP wisely self-censored. That is the correct way to broach the subject here, if broach it you must.

If the devs don't want certain words said here, that's pretty much their prerogative, given this is their site, etc. Don't like it? Tough titties. Plenty of places on the internet where you can use any words you'd like any way you'd like.

It's almost as if people don't understand the concept of 'forum rules'.

Of course I understand GGG can moderate their forums in whatever way they like. Does that stop me from talking about their rules? It could, but lucky for me they don't run a totalitarian site.

I am not trying to make this site into some sort of activist site for freedom of speech across the globe, but I can try to point out how silly their rules are, at least for me.

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A) Contain hate or discrimination
For example: racial slurs, sexist comments or discriminatory comments.

If the OP did not mean any hate or discrimination when he used the words he did, he didn't infringe this rule, nor any of the other rules either.

This rule requires them to look at things in context, but they don't always do that. The link to the Ni--ar family sketch is a prime example of this.

If they want to enforce their rules, they have to go all the way, otherwise it's just arbitrary and their rules have no meaning.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

No offence, but I see no point in debating this when it's going to have zero influence on how support runs the ship.

As for expectations: that's your problem, not mine. ^_^

Actually, they seem to read these things, so if we argue properly it just might spark a conversation within GGG.

I might not have been clear enough about the fact that I don't have that high expectations of getting anything done for the forum rules, but hey at least debating is fun.

I think I got your points.

From now on I will not type phrases like L_L pl_ayers, or D_ablo 3 fa_s, because they are obvious discrimination.

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