What are you going to press when the social contract pops up?

[pahbi]

My main worry is folks abusing the report system; I can already see myself getting time off because some trigger happy millennial reports me for calling him a dingleberry

I'm American, when I hear other Americans use the word fuck, it almost always just sounds foul to me.

By contrast, when I hear Brits, Irish or Scottish folks say fuck, its just hysterical. It doesn't sound no where near as foul as when Americans say it, its almost lighthearted the way they use it.

I guess its good they will be on UK servers so our American triggered generation X can't report them as well.

[Yakut]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

I stopped here because I already knew that the summary of your response was going to be as ludicrous as the source. In no legal profession teaching institution or court would they accept Wikipedia as the source of literally any legal precedent, interpretation, or analysis. It is fraught with errors. Some subtle, many not. Offhand, I know of at least two glaring ones in the field of mathematics that still exist there today.

In the end, it ended up being another deflection from you. I wasn't surprised. You claim freedom of speech, but it does not apply in this context, no matter how much you attempt to contort it. What matters in a legal sense is the rule of law. You won't find any major landmark cases against Blizzard on that particular front. What they do in their offices, well, that's another story and another context entirely - but still divorced from the in-game speech argument.

We own nothing in the game. We have only the rights they have agreed to provide us in their agreements which we sign electronically in every expansion. In addition to the OP's reference to the new social contract (which, if we're honest, isn't really new as such but it does define more examples of inappropriate conduct). We agree to this in order to play the game. Claiming free speech applies when it literally doesn't is at best a lie and at worst disingeuous. If you have a formidable intellect, try arguing a more salient point because you have yet to do so. This one was DOA.

[uuuhname]

Oh lord did you really call people saying things you don't like as abusers, Ike turner would be so proud.

try reading the post you were replying to and feel even a little bit embarrassed by this comment.

[Linkedblade]

Uh, common sense? That would be more than sufficient for you to navigate the majority of the "things I probably shouldn't say" landmines. I'm pretty sure you're perfectly aware that saying 'fuck these stupid orcs' in-character in an RP setting is not one of those landmines, so I'm not sure why you're trying to paint it like you're afraid it could be.

Exactly, but you don't know who's listening and what people find offensive. And like I've said a dozen times already: there are topics in game that people find offensive already, and if you talk about them you could hurt someone's sensitivities. It's not about saying inflammatory things, that's a red herring. It's about being able to talk about literally anything.

[Mysterymask]

Exactly, but you don't know who's listening and what people find offensive. And like I've said a dozen times already: there are topics in game that people find offensive already, and if you talk about them you could hurt someone's sensitivities. It's not about saying inflammatory things, that's a red herring. It's about being able to talk about literally anything.

I mean maybe not talk about sensitive stuff in public chat?

Like I wanna talk about politics stuff and my opinions are spicy!

Trade? Probably not
Group chat with friends? Yes!
Group chat with randos? No
Guild? Maybe
LFR? No
Raid chat with guild? Maybe

[Goatfish]

I stopped here because I already knew that the summary of your response was going to be as ludicrous as the source.

This coming from someone who falsely claimed that "yelling fire in a crowded theater" is against the law, this is pretty rich. You do understand there is a difference between ideology and law don't you?

No one here is making a legal argument, you're just using it as a strawman defense.

[arkanon]

I honestly think you just enjoy fighting. Personally, there are 3 people missing from Proudmoore who were always in General Chat and have not been heard from for days. Anecdotal sure... but it gives me hope I can help eliminate every jerkwad who just wants to act like an asshat til we get back to having few anonymous keyboard cowboys who like to fight, troll, and tell everyone else their words and ideas are the only correct ones. I'm not a fan of passive/aggressive conversation.

So you don't like other people demanding others adhere to their personal preferences, but have made it clear you want to control who does and does not play the game based on your personal preferences?

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I mean maybe not talk about sensitive stuff in public chat?

Like I wanna talk about politics stuff and my opinions are spicy!

Trade? Probably not
Group chat with friends? Yes!
Group chat with randos? No
Guild? Maybe
LFR? No
Raid chat with guild? Maybe

Is it ok to talk about genocide and murder?

[WaltherLeopold]

Why would I ever expose myself to you people on WoW, ofcourse i'll accept the social contract because 99.99% of my interaction with/regarding WoW is on discord or literally any other medium than WoW itself.

[Mysterymask]

Is it ok to talk about genocide and murder?

Once again context matters....and if you don't get that you probably shouldn't be talking about it but if you need help on that

Genocide that happened in lore? Probably ok
Genocide that happened in history: probably not in public channels depends on how you are talking about it but more then likely no
High profile murder trial? Probably fine
The MTG card Murder? Definitely ok
You wanting to murder someone? Not ok
You believing genocide is the right course of action cause fuck you <insert nationality here> NOT OK
Graphically talking about violence? Not ok
Using the term murder to describe how badly someone lost a competition: OK

Like honestly you gotta ask would your mother slap the shit out of you or would your boss fire you if they heard you talking like that?

[Aucald]

As this thread has been pretty conclusively derailed into discussing politics and legal issues well beyond the WoW social contract, it will now be closed.