Poster: Flava at 1/27/2006 2:38:22 PM PST Subject: Invisible Harassment Policy Issue [PART 3] |
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Poster: Caydiem at 1/27/2006 5:27:39 PM PST Subject: Re: Invisible Harassment Policy Issue [PART 3 |
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Apologies for the length of time it took to get this information out to you.
We encourage community building among our players with others of similar interests, and we understand that guilds are one of the primary ways to forge these communities. However, topics related to sensitive real-world subjects -- such as religious, sexual, or political preference, for example -- have had a tendency to result in communication between players that often breaks down into harassment.
To promote a positive game environment for everyone and help prevent such harassment from taking place as best we can, we prohibit mention of topics related to sensitive real-world subjects in open chat within the game, and we do our best to take action whenever we see such topics being broadcast. This includes openly advertising a guild friendly to players based on a particular political, sexual, or religious preference, to list a few examples. For guilds that wish to use such topics as part of their recruiting efforts, our Guild Recruitment forum, located at our community Web site, serves as one open avenue for doing so.
We will be clarifying some of the language in our game policies in order to help avoid such confusion in the future.
I'm not a malefactor, I'm a lagomorph!
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Poster: Caydiem at 1/27/2006 5:33:09 PM PST Subject: Re: Invisible Harassment Policy Issue [PART 3 |
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We'd prefer if you kept it to the Guild Recruitment forum, for the simple reason that Guild Recruitment attracts only the sort of people actively seeking a guild. It's the right target audience, and avoids the issues prevalent with advertising it elsewhere.
I'm not a malefactor, I'm a lagomorph!
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Poster: Caydiem at 1/27/2006 5:39:25 PM PST Subject: Re: Invisible Harassment Policy Issue [PART 3 |
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Stop the insults.
I'm not a malefactor, I'm a lagomorph!
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Poster: Caydiem at 1/27/2006 5:27:39 PM PST Subject: Re: Invisible Harassment Policy Issue [PART 3 *edited post* |
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Apologies for the length of time it took to get this information out to you.
We encourage community building among our players with others of similar interests, and we understand that guilds are one of the primary ways to forge these communities. However, topics related to sensitive real-world subjects -- such as religious, sexual, or political preference, for example -- have had a tendency to result in communication between players that often breaks down into harassment.
To promote a positive game environment for everyone and help prevent such harassment from taking place as best we can, we prohibit mention of topics related to sensitive real-world subjects in open chat within the game, and we do our best to take action whenever we see such topics being broadcast. This includes openly advertising a guild friendly to players based on a particular political, sexual, or religious preference, to list a few examples. For guilds that wish to use such topics as part of their recruiting efforts, our Guild Recruitment forum, located at our community Web site, serves as one open avenue for doing so.
We will be clarifying some of the language in our game policies in order to help avoid such confusion in the future.
I'm not a malefactor, I'm a lagomorph!
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Poster: Caydiem at 1/27/2006 5:33:09 PM PST Subject: Re: Invisible Harassment Policy Issue [PART 3 *edited post* |
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We'd prefer if you kept it to the Guild Recruitment forum, for the simple reason that Guild Recruitment attracts only the sort of people actively seeking a guild. It's the right target audience, and avoids the issues prevalent with advertising it elsewhere.
I'm not a malefactor, I'm a lagomorph!
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Poster: Caydiem at 1/27/2006 5:39:25 PM PST Subject: Re: Invisible Harassment Policy Issue [PART 3 *edited post* |
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Stop the insults.
I'm not a malefactor, I'm a lagomorph!
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