Hello

[Swifty]

I hear that. The problem is not the audacity of someone to bring the worst in me, its the purpose they do it with and quite often getting away with it. Triggering an explosion then acting like a victim for getting burned should also be sanctionable.

If two people argue with one another, then one pulls a gun and shoots the other, you do not arrest the one getting shot, even if they instigated the argument. You arrest the guy with the gun. Obviously, getting called a Nigel in an online argument is nowhere near as severe as getting shot, but the same principles apply.

In your examples, you're the guy pulling the gun. If you literally can't help yourself but shoot the guy you're talking to every single time, the solution is not for people to treat you with kiddie gloves, but for you to learn some trigger discipline or ideally stop carrying altogether.

Maybe shooting the guy is a bit overreacting, lets keep it at punching them in the face. We live in a world where people get way too comfortable insulting others online and not getting punched in the face for it. But hey that's only me, and i like a grown up will face the consequences of my actions. But what if the person in question insists on instigating fights? Do they get a free pass because they may or may not be in good graces with the staff? Cause then, we may be witnesses to the biggest raise of ass-kissery in history of disco to get in those good terms with the staff to get such passes. Maybe again im overreaching, but say, what if I'm not? Personally i never filed a report for harassment, only because the one time i did the person never got even a warning to say the least, so excuse me if im not particularly bothered to trust the system.

It's the feeling all of these sudden moves towards offenses presumed actionable by the staff has given many players, cheezus-f-ing-crust.

Why do these players feel this way, though?

That's what I'm hoping this discourse will elaborate on. However, that's highly doubtful since ironically a gun is being pointed at the likes of Swifty right now for daring to start as such.

They're only pointing that gun because it is unbelievable for them that the black sheep of the server has the audacity to bring this up for discussion and not trolling on it like some of the real role-models of discovery.

At this point you're proving me right and providing me more fuel as one of the people who consistently triggers people or gets on their nerves to get called slurs and then you wonder why it happens? There's also proof of that if you're asking for it, you've done it so many times i got bored counting them. Is this trial by forum or trial by Discord? If so I'll humbly accept my punishment. Can we return to the topic and not make it about you now? Thanks.

I'm sorry, but if you're so thin skinned that people upsetting you immediately triggers a barrage of slurs, you should probably spend more time working on yourself and less complaining about community moderation standards.

I will in fact keep this in mind. Perhaps I was always the problem and never truly realised it.

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