In game chat totally inappropriate

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a_valid_account_name wrote:

Am I just being daft, or is there currently no way to remove people from your ignore list?

/unignore name

free speech at steak in real life.. Now in POE?

Free speech is one thing, but even free speech in real life has its consequences. If people walked down the streets saying the things they say on the internet, they would receive regular beatings.

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WhiteBoy88 wrote:

Free speech is one thing, but even free speech in real life has its consequences. If people walked down the streets saying the things they say on the internet, they would receive regular beatings.

Well, not here in Australia they wouldn't, unless maybe it was late at night and there's nobody out except drunk angry men. Perhaps you live in a rather more barbaric country though, I don't know. That would explain why you don't see fit to mention that in most places, it'd be the people doing the beating up who'd be arrested. Considering those consequences - considering that your right not to be beaten up could well be seen as more important than someone else's right not to be offended - doesn't fit well with this "hur hur you'd get beaten up if you said that" internet toughguy bullshit, I guess.

Well in many towns in the US if you used the language in public that is used in the gobal chat, you could be arrested.

Indeed, and I'd much prefer forum moderators using arrest as a comparison than assault, coming as it does with a set of defined rules you can see in advance, as opposed to guesses about the mental state of those around you. It really doesn't reflect well on GGG if the people they appoint to control speech think violence against people who say things you don't like is an appropriate "consequence".

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GhostPain wrote:

Well in many towns in the US if you used the language in public that is used in the gobal chat, you could be arrested.

I would fucking hope not.

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GusTheCrocodile wrote:

It really doesn't reflect well on GGG if the people they appoint to control speech think violence against people who say things you don't like is an appropriate "consequence".

I don't recall saying it was appropriate, or anything near "appropriate." It's simply a fact of life: violence tends to occur when people try to incite violence with hateful or incriminatory speech. That's all internet trolls are doing, after all. They're using dialogue to incite more violent dialogue for their own amusement.

P.S. I'm from America, and we have freedom of speech. Still, there are some things that you're not allowed to say by law (i.e. getting on a bus and yelling "I have a bomb,") and some things you're not allowed to say by society. Some things make you a social outcast. In a video game, being such a social outcast often leads to you literally being cast out from the game when you continue to deliberately cause disturbances and instigate fights.

Ys, and it's a fact of life that the sky is usually blue and that some people will be morons on the internet. I just assumed that since simply declaring some facts of life would be completely pointless, you must have been making some kind of point by implication. But if there was no point, well, my mistake.

Also, cows go moo, I'm 184cm tall, eating too much sugar can make you sleepy later on, refrigerators are used for keeping food cool, and it's not raining here today.

Edit: sorry, I'm being a smartarse obviously, and it's not entirely called for. I just find it really distasteful for anyone, especially a moderator, to highlight the possibility of someone being assaulted simply for speaking, without at all condemning such an act. Even if it was a fact of life (and I still don't agree that it is unless you're in a town full of nutjobs, in which case you should probably move), it's our job as responsible human beings to reject the facts of life if they're harmful, not just go "oh well, that happens".

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GhostPain wrote:
Well in many towns in the US if you used the language in public that is used in the gobal chat, you could be arrested.

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I would fucking hope not.

If you check the ordaninces of many US towns/cities you will find things for public indecency, and yes you can belive that you could be arrested. Most may not enforce them strictly, but if someone is over the top they have them avaiable.

Free speech does not give a person the right to be a public asshole.