- Staff
- #1
Hello guys, Pepehand moderator and reformed ex n word in roleplay user here! Here to tell you how not to break 1.2! I'll be explaining each paragraph in detail here for you guys!
Basically just means don't be racist or discriminatory towards Races, Genders, Gender Identity, Sexual orientation, Disability, etc. This was always a rule here.
Racism and homophobia are not tolerated in-character.
Self explanatory. Users cannot use Anti gay or racial slurs in character, this includes the N word but with an A instead of "ER" At the end!.
Other forms of discrimination, whereas discouraged, are allowed in-character and are subject to the discretion of the players involved.
You may make certain discriminatory comments in character and call people words like "Retard" But if someone's offended by it, they can state so and you Must immediately stop and apologise in LOOC.
If a player is uncomfortable with the use of discriminatory language, they may request it to stop in LOOC chat or a report. All players involved must respect this.
As explained above, words that heavily offend people should not be used.
"Additionally, players may not knowingly use details of another player’s personal life or identity to discriminate against them."
Examples of this include:
You approach a user you are aware is from Israel, And begin making anti-Semitic remarks to them.
You find a Girl / Woman Playing perp!!!11111111 So you follow them around calling them a slag, whore, slut, etc. Completely unprovoked. Since you know or have a reason to believe they are a woman IRL, you're using this info against them to abuse them.
You find out a player is a Homosexual in real life, so you use slurs against homosexual individuals when speaking to them.
You find out someone is Autistic in real life so you refer to them as words like "Autist", or "Retard".
Under most circumstances its incredibly unlikely we will accept ignorance of that persons real life traits, gender, etc. as a valid excuse for what appears to be targeted discriminatory "Role Play".
SHIT YOU REALLY NEED TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION:
When making discriminatory comments, remarks, etc. In text chat, we have written proof of this and would be able to find out you've done so in an instant. All we'd have to do is type the slur used in chat logs and it'd come up with every instance of it ever being said.
Just because its a game and you're "Roleplaying" doesn't mean that anything you said can't be reported to authorities and results in action being taken against you. An example of this is in the United Kingdom, The Malicious communications act reads as such:
Another issue is, it'd take most likely 1 person to gather a few clips and screenshots of people playing discriminatively and suddenly a tabloid has a scoop to demonize us and other servers. This could draw in new players as "fReE aDvErTiSiNg" as people say "No press is bad press" However we could wind up with the WRONG Kind of playerbase influx, where we attract both genuinely racist and hateful people, or people who think such conduct is comedy gold, resulting in our community becoming a haven for such people, which would just give us MORE bad press.
Also, You don't know someone's life, who they are, what they've been through, what they've seen or done, etc. You could be "Harmlessly" abusing people "in character" for "Banter" But the person you've given the abuse to might be disgusted, distressed, and generally put off of coming back. Word of mouth is our biggest friend here when it comes to getting more players to join our community and it'd just take one person openly accusing us of allowing targeted discrimination for that shit to spread and put people off joining us. But even bigger so, is you're hurting people and possibly causing emotional distress.
Tl;Dr: Don't be a dick.
1.2 Discrimination
"Any form of discrimination is not tolerated in an out-of-character context."Basically just means don't be racist or discriminatory towards Races, Genders, Gender Identity, Sexual orientation, Disability, etc. This was always a rule here.
Racism and homophobia are not tolerated in-character.
Self explanatory. Users cannot use Anti gay or racial slurs in character, this includes the N word but with an A instead of "ER" At the end!.
Other forms of discrimination, whereas discouraged, are allowed in-character and are subject to the discretion of the players involved.
You may make certain discriminatory comments in character and call people words like "Retard" But if someone's offended by it, they can state so and you Must immediately stop and apologise in LOOC.
If a player is uncomfortable with the use of discriminatory language, they may request it to stop in LOOC chat or a report. All players involved must respect this.
As explained above, words that heavily offend people should not be used.
"Additionally, players may not knowingly use details of another player’s personal life or identity to discriminate against them."
Examples of this include:
You approach a user you are aware is from Israel, And begin making anti-Semitic remarks to them.
You find a Girl / Woman Playing perp!!!11111111 So you follow them around calling them a slag, whore, slut, etc. Completely unprovoked. Since you know or have a reason to believe they are a woman IRL, you're using this info against them to abuse them.
You find out a player is a Homosexual in real life, so you use slurs against homosexual individuals when speaking to them.
You find out someone is Autistic in real life so you refer to them as words like "Autist", or "Retard".
Under most circumstances its incredibly unlikely we will accept ignorance of that persons real life traits, gender, etc. as a valid excuse for what appears to be targeted discriminatory "Role Play".
SHIT YOU REALLY NEED TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION:
When making discriminatory comments, remarks, etc. In text chat, we have written proof of this and would be able to find out you've done so in an instant. All we'd have to do is type the slur used in chat logs and it'd come up with every instance of it ever being said.
Just because its a game and you're "Roleplaying" doesn't mean that anything you said can't be reported to authorities and results in action being taken against you. An example of this is in the United Kingdom, The Malicious communications act reads as such:
Now, If you read the actual act, you wont see "Exceptions include if you're roleplaying on a video game". Someone can take what you've said and file a complaint, meaning that either us staff members, senior management, or in what could be seen as an unlikely scenario, someone could file a report to authorities, The latter is an extreme case, however could still very well happen.
Another issue is, it'd take most likely 1 person to gather a few clips and screenshots of people playing discriminatively and suddenly a tabloid has a scoop to demonize us and other servers. This could draw in new players as "fReE aDvErTiSiNg" as people say "No press is bad press" However we could wind up with the WRONG Kind of playerbase influx, where we attract both genuinely racist and hateful people, or people who think such conduct is comedy gold, resulting in our community becoming a haven for such people, which would just give us MORE bad press.
Also, You don't know someone's life, who they are, what they've been through, what they've seen or done, etc. You could be "Harmlessly" abusing people "in character" for "Banter" But the person you've given the abuse to might be disgusted, distressed, and generally put off of coming back. Word of mouth is our biggest friend here when it comes to getting more players to join our community and it'd just take one person openly accusing us of allowing targeted discrimination for that shit to spread and put people off joining us. But even bigger so, is you're hurting people and possibly causing emotional distress.
Tl;Dr: Don't be a dick.
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