"Man is his own star. His acts are his angels, good or ill, While his fatal shadows walk silently beside him."-Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine AFC 54
You know a community is bad when moderators lock a thread because "...this isnt the place to talk about it either seeing as it will get trolled..."
So where do you draw the line then?
What about racial slurs? Should people just "get over it" there, too? What about sexist language, or disparaging sexual orientation, or whatever else.
There are no hard and fast rules here for what is and isn't okay. It's all a matter of negotiation. And now they want to negotiate a different kind of line.
It's not a situation of "either everything goes, or everything is censored". Clearly there are distinctions made, and it's just about how and when we make them.
The "superior Classic community" led to an emote's removal.
I'm chuckling good over here.
Good show, and clearly many WoW players seem to need tightening up on how they're allowed to interact with other human beings.
"Man is his own star. His acts are his angels, good or ill, While his fatal shadows walk silently beside him."-Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine AFC 54
You know a community is bad when moderators lock a thread because "...this isnt the place to talk about it either seeing as it will get trolled..."
I only use /spit on the Mistcaller boss in Tirna scithe tbh.
That isn't close to the same reasoning for why /spit is theorized to be removed. People were encouraged to repeatedly /spit on anyone who has a specific mount by a streamer. Weak auras were created to automatically do it every time a person on the mount was targeted. That is 100% different then saying a post that disagrees with you is harassment simply because it disagrees with you.
The people that are throwing a fit and can't handle things are those who are making a big deal about it being removed. Its an emote in a video game. Will people still harass others? Sure. Is it a big deal /spit is removed even for those who were not harassing others? Nope. It is a non issue either way. Blizzard taking a step to potentially combat harassment is a good thing. Defending those doing that harassment is a bad thing.
"Man is his own star. His acts are his angels, good or ill, While his fatal shadows walk silently beside him."-Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine AFC 54
You know a community is bad when moderators lock a thread because "...this isnt the place to talk about it either seeing as it will get trolled..."
Fortunately mods don't agree with you, so you'll have to "man it up", like your kind likes to say. However, if it was a post with death threats, sexual harassment, racist slurs, homophobia, etc. it would be an entirely different story.
Because ultimately it isn't you who decides what is harassing and what isn't, but the society as a whole. A society in which your kind is fortunately losing ground with each passing day. As you might say, life is tough, isn't it?
"Man is his own star. His acts are his angels, good or ill, While his fatal shadows walk silently beside him."-Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine AFC 54
You know a community is bad when moderators lock a thread because "...this isnt the place to talk about it either seeing as it will get trolled..."
All you have to do is create a custom emote. /em spits on %T and it bypasses it.
"Man is his own star. His acts are his angels, good or ill, While his fatal shadows walk silently beside him."-Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine AFC 54
You know a community is bad when moderators lock a thread because "...this isnt the place to talk about it either seeing as it will get trolled..."
You're furthering hate. And mental instability. Any expert in the field would tell you that when someone is "mentally harmed" by something abject removal of the threat from their lives only makes them more sensible and exhacerbates the damage if/when exposed to it again. All you're doing is making them more vulnerable.
Removing /spit for everyone, including those using it correctly and innocently, is indefensible.
Covering the world in bubblewraps doesn't help anyone, it only makes a suckier world for all.
Lol.
Putting a quick stop to harassment by just removing the emote is not covering the world in bubble wrap. It also allows Blizzard to easily take action based on intent if people continue it with a new emote. The only ones hurt by this change are the ones that are doing the harassment.
What is funny about using the word they properly?
"Man is his own star. His acts are his angels, good or ill, While his fatal shadows walk silently beside him."-Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine AFC 54
You know a community is bad when moderators lock a thread because "...this isnt the place to talk about it either seeing as it will get trolled..."
Interesting that they removed it from tbc but not from retail. Could that mean tbc is more toxic than retail? I cant imagine as retail is already toxic enought.