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This is a private forum. Its owners exercise nearly complete control over what is and isn't allowed to be published on it. Posts including staff criticism or real life attacks, for instance, are frequently removed and often result in loss of forum access for the poster. So it's disingenuous to act like speech on this forum isn't already being censored. It is selective censorship, and it's fair game to ask why certain forms of speech (i.e. overt anti-semitism) are not banned--or those bans are not vigorously enforced--while others are. There is obviously no rule forbidding this forum from promoting or turning a blind eye to racist or anti-semitic speech. If the forum runners approve of it, that's within their rights. The OP justifiably asks whether they do--whether their silence on the issue is intentional or whether they were unaware of the post in question. Presumably it matters to him and will impact his continued patronage of the project. I appreciate the anti-censorship angle, but it just doesn't apply here. This is a private elf club and if its members and/or owners agree that racism isn't invited to elf club, then hey: it isn't. The interests of open discourse aren't really served by an elf simulator forum at all, so let's not kid ourselves, but to the extent that they are, allowing internet people to post offensively bigoted content with impunity isn't serving them. It's far more likely to chill open discourse. | |||
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You'd be spot on Dald if I had been complaining to the forum owners about censorship - they have every rght to limit the type of dicussion on their forums. I wasn't addressing them though. I was bitching at a single person who was appealling to the forum mods in favor of censorship. So I think it does apply here. He is specifically requesting the mods censor content he finds disagreeable, which I find disagreeable. Not sure how my criticism of his criticism is any less applicable.
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Forum owners are free to do what they wish and to have or enforce any rules they see fit. The OP is just butt hurt because in recent OT political discussions his views have been tarnished by the actions of individuals in Europe, the US, and ME. References to ZOG are political not racial and are as valid to criticize as radical Islam in my opinion.
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P2002 had the right idea: your forum account is tied to your in-game one. If you get a ban on the forums and your characters get banned in-game too. The result? Their forum isn't Stormfront 2.0 like it is here and there's basically no need for staff to ever moderate. Freakin' shocker, I know. | |||
Last edited by Sage Truthbearer; 07-25-2016 at 04:08 PM..
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We all want to Make MMOs Great Again.
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The staff are NOT ignorant to who is pushing the envelope.
If these people choose to act up who ever they are,. The p99 staff will strike them down
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No longer active, thank you for the years of fun. No alt account and I do not post on the P99 forums. Told this to Rogean, Nilbog & Menden. | ||
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shitty idea for shitty insular tiny pop nerd servers where everyone playing is a creep. without forumquest i'm positive red would be floating 10 players (or else an alternative unmoderated board with tranny dicks would step up). | |||
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