Telanir 6427 Popular Post Share Posted November 20, 2019 Hello everyone, Our server hosts an experience unlike any other. We come to forge an interesting story, to make friends, and to put the bickerings and distresses of the outside world on pause. We also come here to play Minecraft and to roleplay. As of today, please keep general political, controversial, and inflammatory discussions away from LotC mediums, this includes things like #ooc, our Discord Server, our forums, and such. Please also refrain from mature themes as our server is home to many young children during an especially impressionable age. Just so we are clear, we are instructing moderators to warn once/twice and then to remove the player if the warning is ignored. In case it needs to be said, we don’t care about political discussions in private community Discords. We will trial this for 1-2 months at which point we will review if we have brought about a positive effect. P.S. Please also keep in check references such as naming your characters after real-life or any characters from other fictions. 32 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhased 3586 Share Posted November 20, 2019 (Insert inane political comment to stir the masses and get rep) 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryno2 1238 Share Posted November 20, 2019 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
z3m0s 1746 Share Posted November 20, 2019 Lmao everyone’s like “Politics isn’t the issue, it’s the toxicity” but every conversation ever about politics eventually results in toxicity lmao. Why even discuss it on a medievel minecraft server. . . Just go elsewhere if you wanna discuss politics or do it on a private discord, I don’t see this being a problem at all. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Jandy_ 3167 Share Posted November 20, 2019 @SpaceOfAids how mad are you? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ajax 335 Share Posted November 20, 2019 what if we say something meaningful to discussion and people get mad, though that was not the intent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keefy 2047 Share Posted November 20, 2019 3 hours ago, Telanir said: Please also keep in check references such as naming your characters after real-life or any characters from other fictions. Can this get clarified a bit cause my guy if you haven't noticed people name themselves based on popular culture or actual existing names all the time. Do you mean please don't outright rip off characters, or what? Is this code? @Telanir 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallic 1051 Share Posted November 20, 2019 what do you mean mature themes Decapitation is pretty mature but it happens every day on the server. Ologs eat people alive, people are tortured, ST creates vast stories with spooky eldritch powers, some characters are abusive - What do you mean MATURE THEMES? and what do you mean don’t name characters after other characters, people name characters after their favorite stories all the time- I know I have, I named one of my druids Gwion after the figure from Celtic mythology and I WANTED to name him Taliesin after a different character from the same story, but there was already a Tailesin on the server named after the same guy and I didn’t want to infringe on their idea 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telanir 6427 Author Share Posted November 20, 2019 4 hours ago, The King Of The Moon said: So you’re telling me if I’m vocally against homosexuals being executed, women having their genitals mutilated, global warming, imperialism, genocides targeting minority groups, indigenous displacement and antisemitic movements – to name a few topics - then I’ll get banned? Or is it only bannable if I talk about ideas you don’t personally politically align yourself against? I’m a history student and I don’t think I’ll be able to discuss my topic of study if we’re all ‘protected’ in the way you’d like. Politics isn’t everything, but it does touch everything. To deny that would be very naive. In my humble and private opinion, these topics are worthy of dissemination and awareness. However, it doesn’t matter which topics I myself align with, they have no place on a Minecraft roleplay gaming platform. Give it 10 minutes before it devolves into shit-flinging, not cool. Not here. Say anything you like about them in your private channels, just keep ‘em off the forums, ooc, and the LotC Discord server. 3 hours ago, Crevel said: Can I be punished for when I in great detail explain how the perception and the discrimination against Orcs on LotC is very similar to how African-Americans were perceived and hated on before and during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States? I’d also like to point out the irony of making sure we don’t name our characters after real life people or fictional characters when Telanir’s only persona is the most generic s***post that is usually accompanied by the surname Joe. I’d like to list below all the Billy Bobs I can find: Every Billy Bob Joe that exists, including the urban dictionary definitions (the oldest being from 2007) Billy Bob, the animatronic. Billy Bob Thorton. The countless Billy Bob games. Hey Crevel, thank you for the opportunity to clarify a bit here—we’re talking direct references to an IRL organization/entity, or perhaps naming your character Gandalf or Trump. Things like Billy Bob are essentially harmless and apolitical. Something like Billy Joe Biden would be off the table. And yes, you can absolutely be punished for the first sentence lmao, and yes I get the reference. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeypoacher 6991 Share Posted November 20, 2019 13 minutes ago, Telanir said: In my humble and private opinion, these topics are worthy of dissemination and awareness. However, it doesn’t matter which topics I myself align with, they have no place on a Minecraft roleplay gaming platform. Give it 10 minutes before it devolves into ****-flinging, not cool. Not here. Say anything you like about them in your private channels, just keep ‘em off the forums, ooc, and the LotC Discord server. My response to this post (and this entire very stupid thread) is that if you ban overt political discussion you just open the forum up to dog-whistle politics. If you ban people for challenging things like white supremacy (which can very easily be dogwhistled/passed off as “irony”) you just give the server over to the white supremacists. I'd say reconsider this, but you never do, so what's the point? What about LGBT people. Is discussing LGBT topics “political” and therefore banned, just because the topics have been politicized by bigots? Very misguided rule, especially when tacit homophobia is basically the norm on the server. Disappointing. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrophysical 993 Share Posted November 20, 2019 Inb4 the staff twists this too... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scuba 281 Share Posted November 20, 2019 Telanir is a product of capitalism. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chryasor 269 Share Posted November 20, 2019 (edited) Right well, what constitutes political? LOTC is a very political server in its nature, as i said before, it’s based off real-life groups and political movements with a fantasy twist. Can i discuss IRP politics and compare them to IRL politics? Can I complain about a lot of IRP politics being obvious inserts of modern politics and they don’t feel at home in the setting? How modern are the politics here? Can I joke about crusades? They’re medieval history, they happen on the server, but they have been brought up in politics. Like, is the “imperial fascist party” that was around a while ago allowed? Can I mention things like politics from the early 1900’s from europe? Swedish politics maybe? Can I joke about them? “Ah goddamned communists” and **** like that? Because I joke about communists a fair bit. I’m not against these rules, it just seems utterly impossible to define, and feels like something that will be bent to ban people who aren’t deserving of it, or defend others who definitively should be banned. Annoying bandit X makes a joke about brexit? whack Good guy Y is chatting to a mod, jokes about “Dump the Trump BIG LOL” and nothing is done. Edited November 20, 2019 by Chryasor 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnBaed 8685 Share Posted November 20, 2019 Stop trying to silence your players and ******* take action against those actively causing problems in debates. It’s healthy and good to talk and debate about political problems, big brother. It’s a major part of our lives, and an important role for us to do. Don’t punish the people trying to have healthy, enlightening discussions. Even a 12 year old can understand that this is more than “a minecwaft wolepwaying sewvewr” – we’re a community and we like expressing our opinions. FREE HONGKONG 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
THUNDER37 162 Share Posted November 20, 2019 Honestly you’d gotten some of my respect back in recent months due to a few changes, this however has just flown in one ear and out of the other.. There are ten thousand Nazi, Jew, Islamic, Crusade jokes on this server.. Another thousand debates about current events in the known world.. If you want to ban half the server or leave it a husk of it’s former self, well done pal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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