Confused about possible censorship

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It sounds horrible anyway:

Two people can’t “fear” each other, one of the fears would go off a millisecond before the other. You can’t cast fear when feared!

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I agree that SJW is derogatory and that is why when someone writes something such as “these forums used to be fun but the SJW carebears got their feelings hurt” both of them comes across as insults. Now don’t make me cry! :wink:

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No – I simply don’t see every use of those words as an insult. The adjectives conjoined to the noun contain the insult, if any exists. “Worthless, stupid, lazy carebear,” for example.

Sort of like this:

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Hey don’t use my quote against me! :rofl:

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But SJW just stands for Social Justice Warrior and was actually used as a positive thing before it got turned into an insult. So how is SJW and insult in that sentence but Carebear isn’t? Just like calling people snowflakes, the word itself isn’t an insult but when used towards someone it very much is.

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Because it’s political in nature, while carebears are cartoon animals. Just my 2c.

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Flagging needs to go. People act like idiots with it. Give people a bit of power and they misuse it against anything they don’t “agree with”. It’s pathetic. Go ahead, flag me. Prove my point.

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Flagged for talking sense!

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So need to be able to link a face palm. Calling someone a carebear has never been anything except derogatory or an insult. OP got flagged for it because of that.

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…but you didn’t say anything that would be worth flagging.

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I’m with you he put the emphasis in. :slight_smile:

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Still it is not the point. The point is that Blizzard relys on the flagging to do their job for them, which is going through all the posts and seeing what needs moderation…

and we pay them for that. Too WORK FOR them.

Not cool, just sayin.

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I’m really having a hard time discerning what the people in this forum want. It seems very polarized between people who want to be able to say whatever fool thing they want to people with no filter and people who want anything that might cause offense to be stamped out.

Where’s the middle ground?

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HA, this is WoW, fair playing fields do not exist here. Funny guy :crazy_face:

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Having moderators that look at context rather than just relying on players opinions. These mods should have a firm grasp of the direction Blizzard wants its forums (or perhaps its game by game?) going and they should apply moderation accordingly. That’s where the middle ground comes from.

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Yeah, moderators hyperfocusing on one post and ignoring everything around it - is one of their biggest failures right now.

They simply don’t appear to look at context at all. They are tunnelvisioning.

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I’d agree, that’s where the middle ground should be coming from. I don’t feel that it is, though. To me, this just goes back to my earlier statement that there are things that are simply not okay to call another person.

If there are cases where such things aren’t being said and people are still being suspended, I view that as a problem. Not a problem I’m at particular liberty to discuss in-depth, of course, but a problem nonetheless.

The WoW forums have always had a certain tone and flavor to them. I don’t want to see that stamped out in the interest of protecting us from each other’s opinions.

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I agree and I am hoping they are just going through a learning curve.

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Having MODs in the first place CAN (I am not saying it WILL) open Blizzard up to legal responses. Learn about the publisher vs platform argument going on right now for Facebook, twitter, etc. It could very easily affect message boards as well.

I am not arguing for a side, but it is worth educating yourself on.

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What’s stopping someone from getting friends and guildies to swoop in and mass flag everything they don’t like? At the moment, nothing.

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