Unchecked Hate Speech on my Server

[Leafblight-dark-iron (Leafblight)]

Yeap. This is the kinda stuff that gets you up that punishment volcano real quick and then tossed in.

[Stompypotato-durotan (Stompypotato)]

I am sure it happens in game as well. I see pretty hostile statements being made in general and trade on guys who Still have those channels open. I am sure they are being reported.

[Lilithia-nagrand (Lilithia)]

Alright let’s cut the BS and let me tell you all the truth of the situation as it is.

When the Silence system came out, it was Blizzard’s way of encouraging the community to police itself, that if the majority of people report someone, then they will get silenced from talking.

What happens is that as people don’t want to be censored themselves, it creates a situation where nobody reports anyone, and if people are having fights and throwing insults at each other, then nobody cares everyone just ignores it.

The ONLY time on my server that someone has ever been jumped on by a lot of people is when they used the N word for black people, people will stay out of personal fights between groups, but the large majority of people are united against things like blatant racism.

[Lilithia-nagrand (Lilithia)]

No Lizelle, let me settle this gender debate once and for all.

The correct answer is there are 42. It is always 42.

[Olivier-emerald-dream]

@Lizelle-moon-guard

There are only seventeen genders.

Hahaha comedy heaven 10/10

[Howlback-alexstrasza (Howlback)]

The bar for what qualifies as “hate speech” these days is set so low that it means nothing anymore.

[Malgorok-zuljin]

I think discriminating against people of difference race and talking about how bad they are counts

[Olivier-emerald-dream]

I dont think racism sexism and anti trans rhetoric is that low of a bar.

[Demontune-wyrmrest-accord]

let me give you a example of american hatespeech imo…
president andrew jackson… or christopher Columbus. in terms of andrew jackson he led the trail of tears and christopher columbus who slaughtered coast to coast without any provoke.
someone calling names… heck even burning crosses aint hate speech… ethnic cleansing and truly vile words become hate speech.

[Sororitygirl-emerald-dream]

Im on ED and I never see anything remotely close to ban worthy behavior in any chat channels. Fraud

[Kaurmine-area-52]

@Olivier-emerald-dream

I can’t tell if this is exclusive to my server, but since somewhere at the end of WoD, a PvP guild established themselves as being white supremacist

How so? Blizz wouldn’t stand for any shenanigans with guild names but if you’re just making an assumption then

@Olivier-emerald-dream

and kicking anyone who they learned was hispanic/black with hardcore racist speech and rhetoric.

How do you know? This wouldn’t be hearsay would it?

@Olivier-emerald-dream

However in the past 2 years I would say, this behavior has become much more widespread, and attracted a whole different kind of toxicity to the server. Nowadays, trade chat is 24/7 people “Owning the libs” and screaming how transgender people are mentally ill, that sort of lovely talk.

If people are saying things that are reportable then report them
If enough people in chat have a problem with what they are saying then they’ll get squelched until Blizz staff looks into it.
If what they are saying isn’t bothering enough people to get squelched then well that’s your server for you.

@Olivier-emerald-dream

I just want to play with my friends without the occasional racist/transphobic whispers and trade chat.

If you want to avoid racist chat I would avoid the internet.

[Malgorok-zuljin]

@Demontune-wyrmrest-accord

ethnic cleansing and truly vile words become hate speech.

Uh… ethnic cleansing is kind of several steps ahead of “hate speech”, thats full on genocide

Speech, its talking, thats why its called Hate Speech and not Hate Murder

[Mettlelight-illidan]

@Olivier-emerald-dream

Its interresting to see the varying opinions on this, its either met with similar experience and relatability, a bigger push for censorship or people crying about censorship, te same people who dare not say what their true opinion is on their topic, and calling first amendment to push their hateful narrative, please, if you have a hateful narrative, push it forward here you coward.

Oh grow up. When your argument boils down to “I’m the thought police and I know they are racists at heart!” You are acting like a child who understands nothing of the world.

[Laundrie-bleeding-hollow]

@Olivier-emerald-dream

I dont think racism sexism and anti trans rhetoric

racism and sexism sure. “transphobia” eh…what even is transphobia these days anyway. could be anything.