Ok our new flavour is we are a group of dungeon explorers rescuing captives who have been taken by an evil being, so we don’t vote people to die we vote people to set them free of their entrapment of the game that is mafia
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Why is Lynch a bad word, but bottle isn’t?
No
If you start going down the path of autoreplacing words or throwing on profanity filters, that’s where that leads
And dungeon is named “mafia” which means “glass” in teurrekish so we dont have to change the name of the site!
I also told my concern about this to elli but it wont happen if it happens we will elo riot
Yeah to be fair, i don’t have a problem with mu like others on this site do, at least not to the same degree. I prefer freedom of doing what I like but I’m willing to put up with it for a game of mafia on mu if its a cool setup/playerlist.
That being said obviously you can’t make a site more pc but keep the same level of liberty to the players, they are contrasting. It’s not necessarily a wrong choice but it is a similar frame of mind that led mu to the way it is today. Again, I don’t mind mu I’m friends with a lot of their staff but it is going down that road.
What is going down the road?
Why is lynch not a bad word, but the n word is? See, I can do it too.
I don’t know what issues people have with MU.
Jailed is what I always used irl before I started playing on a forum, but jailing is also associated with the jailer role to protect and roleblock. I’d also prefer non killing terminology (especially so if the whole team wins at the end they can invite back their exiled/banished friends instead of an almost pyrrhic victory), but it’s a bit more awkward with the current mafia flavour.
You have just commited the fallacy of Tuquoque.
You are afraid of becoming MU but we are becoming MS
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Not really leading anywhere that rule sunbell quoted has been around for a long time
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Overmoderation and an aggressively “our way is the right way to play” mentality is what makes me not play there outside of champs
I think I’m missing context to this
Sounds very Survivory. I like it.
Also I could make my custom UI think “snuff out your torch” or something.
Voted out of the town (rather than the tribe) sounds cool to me, I also think that banished or exiled are better than lynched.
I understand Elli is primarily concerned with new players as opposed to attracting players from other sites, but I am curious what other sites have been doing on this topic? @StarV you’re the first person I remember bringing this up, so I’m curious if you’ve heard more about this elsewhere / your thoughts in general.
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Okay but I don’t think of myself as particularly insensitive to minority groups (hell, I’m a part of one), and yet it never registered with me that the word lynch clearly has negative racial connotations (outside of it being the way that you would refer to the killing of a person by an aggressive mob). It’s obvious now that it has been pointed out, but I just didn’t even think about it. So the rule is great, but it’s not necessarily obvious in every context. Which is why discussions are important.
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Yah I’m saying this isn’t us moving the needle towards overmoderating
I can’t say that there’s over moderation here, though that Elo episode was ridiculous.
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