Was the censor ridicilous or what others said about elo ridiculous?
The censorship of the word.
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the elo thing was a half joke but yeah, my bad.
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It’s hard to make people improve if you don’t engage in conversation. And sometimes for that to happen, people have to make mistakes. That’s all I’m getting at.
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And if they refuse, then at least you know their true colors I guess.
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With Ellis reconsidering, you are right. The swapping out of words is censorship though which is over moderating
Why?
Well, I come from a sub forum from a football sim browser game called GLB. Our sub forum was called Free For All, and one of the major reasons we all posted in Free For All was because there weren’t really any rules other than like don’t use hate speech, don’t threaten people etc like the basics of decent human behavior etc and everything was grand and people had a lot of fun. I made lifelong friendships that I still interact with to this day.
But over the years they began to censor us more and more (in similar ways to what Elli is suggesting) until it became almost comical how easily it was for you to get banned in the “Free For All” ruleless forum so we all migrated off site and the game basically died.
Can someone explain this elo episode I missed it
So maybe I am on the far end of the spectrum as far as this is concerned, which I can understand and look objectively at, but I’ve seen forums go down this path before and it just doesn’t lead to a good place.
It’s better to correct the behavior as Andres is saying than to outright censor
as a half-joke I made it so when people typed elo a black bar would appear instead and they rioted.
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Honestly, I’m sick of reading about ELO, can we please stop? It’s getting crazy, like every other word I see is “ELO”.
To be honest, the goal seems to be to attract people who don’t like the word, so censoring is a far better decision than having an ongoing conversation about it for the next year and every time someone joins from another mafia site.
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ELO every ELO other ELO word ELO i ELO see ELO is ELO
I think @DS isn’t against the popup appearing when someone uses lynch but is against the autoreplace?
I mean it’s better than replacing it outright, but the
pop up is also annoying so
Basically, he’s saying censorship is a slippery slope. And I’m not altogether sure I disagree with him.
Can you just auto-replace for me… Or have a toggle like Urist was suggesting? Every time I get a popup that tells me something is required / not allowed, I usually lose the motivation to complete the action I was going to do.
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I think education is best
Maybe when someone posts the word lynch they get an automatically generated PM to them quoting the post saying
Hey guy, we don’t do that round here
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Have we considered the possibility that the people raising these concerns are trolling