(06-30-2016, 03:13 PM)Omicega Wrote: It's the truth, though. You don't have to condone racism - jokingly done or not - and any other manner of hate speech to be able to acknowledge the simple fact that the internet is a wide and varied place, many corners of which are full of people you are not compatible with. Whether it's because they make racist or offensive jokes or are flat out assholes who will scream their throats raw telling you how awful you are is by the by - if you don't have a thick enough skin to handle the nasty people that you'll undoubtedly run into when you go online, then you should either not bother or tread very carefully.
I don't think you're either stupid enough or idealistic enough to suggest that anyone can reasonably expect to remain free of verbal abuse online, unless you've never played a multiplayer game in your life.
Blah blah blah. You can justify it all you want, doesn't mean I or anyone else here has to put up with it. Casual racism grows out of you when you turn about 15, but I guess someone people are just born assholes. It isn't up to anyone else who is a decent human being to tread carefully about racist shitheads, it's the racist shitheads that do. If they can be removed permanently, all the better.
Those people I typically just place on ignore or block or whatever filtering option is available to me. In a multiplayer game with thousands and thousands of players that's not a problem, even if you didn't the chance of running into them is very tiny. In a small isolated mod for an ageing game with a dwindling population, that kind of behavior is just asinine because you will invariably HAVE to deal with the people at some point considering that people can be in multiple factions in multiple regions of the game. It's just idiotic behavior.
Quite frankly, if that was one the reasons why they got the swift kick, good riddance.
As someone who's been around since the dawn of multiplayer gaming, I gotta say that you sir are exceptionally mistaken.
Some communities have a decent player base, others not so much. This somewhat depends on how old that particular community is, but nevertheless, as said, you shall be prepared for invalid and some times disgusting behavior.
I'm not sure if you realize it, but there are a lot worse places to play in. Disco is a dignity paradise compared to a lot other gaming communities, in which games, the moment you connect to the server, there will always be somebody swearing at your mother, and if you are a server staff member, you'd be better off insulting them back instead of booting or muting them, because virtually the entire player base consists of incoherent douches, and banning one would imply banning the entire community.
You still have a point though, I'm not saying you don't, but you should still take that advise seriously - if you'd always expect to be treated fairly and in a dignified manner on the internet, then you should consider switching to some more relaxing environments, like tetris.
