- Recon Number 54
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.
Posted by: da bomb drop
Posted by: Recon Number 54
If someone makes a group or is in a group and slags/slanders/insults me all day long, I couldn't care less.Oh really? "lightbulb"
But if this COC thing can be beleived, within reason, could i report anything to the moderators on the idea that it makes me uncormfortable?
I know achronos has often said "we give the ninjas free rein to interprit (im a spelling derper) the rules as they like" but there has to be a line.
I have gotten messages from members who were complaining that someone disagreeing with them (civilly from my perspective) were "making them uncomfortable" and demanding that I "do something about this person".
I referred them to the sentence preceeding the one they were referring to. Here's the whole thing, my point underlined, theirs italicized.
The Bungie Web Sites and the services provided therein are not to be used to transmit any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable content, as determined by any Bungie Web Sites employee, designee or admin. This includes material which a user may find embarrassing or which may cause distress, unwanted attention or discomfort to them. It also includes vulgar and abusive language, even when masked by symbolic characters, and includes login names, screen names and club names.
We reserve the right to remove, at any time and without notice, any user or group for violations of this Code of Conduct.
I read that to mean that while a member can be embarrassed, distressed, or discomforted, it is still up to an employee, designee or admin to make a determination whether the "offense" warrants a response.
In some cases, my response has been "if you are this easily offended, then perhaps you should reconsider participating in an open exchange of ideas and thoughts on the Internet. At least until you are capable of discerning disagreement from an insult." Of course, once I say something like that, if the person is that easily offended, they think that I am attacking them and "defend themselves" according to their previous pattern of response.
[Edited on 07.12.2011 2:59 PM PDT]