Confused about possible censorship

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FTFY. Form your own opinions, OP. YouTubers make videos to make money. Their purpose is not to inform.

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I’d just call that banter from one faction to the other

What’s the fun if we can’t be on the winning side and have bragging rights?
If people are getting their feelings damaged from that my g

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Haha, so that’s why the post was greyed out. Sheesh, isnt ‘carebear’ hate speech yet?

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Maybe not hate speech, but the way it is used by the PvP community is hateful and worthy of flagging as trolling.

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No, it really isn’t. Ever.

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There are a lot of players that consider carebear an insult and would consider that trolling. I wouldn’t personally flag that, but I can certainly see why it would be. Calling people names is pretty much one of the definitions of trolling.

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In your opinion. If the post was grayed out as flagged, that means a lot more people think it is than not.

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Because of this.

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Yea. Always the same people whining about horde dominating warmode. The same whiners refuse to turn it on and refuse to try and get more Alliance to be active. I called them carebears and they got it greyed out.
Also my Alliance main is non existent because I disagree with all the Horde bias crap

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Irrelevant. If enough people claim that a pat on the head is abusive, that does not make it abuse.

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Maybe if they went into warmode and helped the Alliance cause by getting people to enable it instead of crying on the forums about how imbalanced it is and to never enable it I wouldn’t have called them carebears.

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Please tell us how you managed to figure this one out. Because there is no ‘upflag’ to counter act the flag.

Mass flagging a post because you don’t like it should be trolling. Not saying that you are not a carebear lol.

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What about when non-PVPers trash PVPers because they assume everyone who enjoys PVP is “toxic” or “degenerate” or whatever?

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You have the same option to flag the post.

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Technically? That would be trolling as well. Again I wouldn’t flag either one, but I can see why some would.

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No, again, it really wouldn’t. ‘Carebear’ is a term that has been used for players who don’t engage in PvP content or activity since the game’s inception. It is not abusive, it’s simply a colloquial term, much like Dragonslayer and the oft-used PvE’er.

I rarely bother speaking up about this kind of thing, but referring to another player as a carebear is neither offensive nor inappropriate.

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My point is maybe people shouldn’t make generalizations. I doubt everyone uses “carebear” in an offensive way, the term has been around for as long as I can remember.

I also don’t think going on a flagging spree every time you see someone using a term you don’t like to hear is necessary. Not saying that’s what you, specifically, do but just pointing it out.

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Possibly people feel censored because they keep getting directed to the correct forum?

This is Wow Retail General discussion, not the Classic Forum. Though…I can see why people might think it’s best to post here rather than there (fear of speaking in a echo chamber).

I think (source not found, vague memory from seeing people b…uh…complain in general chat in game) some threads have been moved there, perhaps they lost track and assumed they had been removed entirely.

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I think most of us who “grew up” on WoW also grew up with that term floating around, yeah – but there’s a difference, I think, between guild banter on your PvP realm about all the silly carebears, and breaking down a discussion now about warmode by replying with a “f* the crybaby carebears” response to an OP’s attempt at legit discourse.

Nuance is hard on forums, but that’s my 2c. Context is always relevant.

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Maybe… But it is now pretty much considered an insult. Words evolve and context has to be considered. Like me saying I like potatoes or me calling a bunch of people potatoes.

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