08-10-2025, 05:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-10-2025, 05:53 PM by TDawg4. Edited 2 times in total.)
Uhm. I get we are coming off the whole Pluto thing but this goes way to far. The goal of rules in the community is to set a window of acceptable behavior where we make make this a good place to be for members of the community.
So far "cracker" has been an occasional thing usually someone talking to their friend or something, and hasn't really been used as some sort of attack against anyone on the server. If we want to make it officially like soft-a I dont really have and issue. But it will be enforced the same way we enforce soft-a.
The rest. Yeah no, I think that one we have enough community members that would be made uncomfortable for it to not be worth it. And two, those words have not been used in a positive way at all least here on dinks and I dont think that will change.
Personally, for this conversation how we are labeling what is racist or not doesn't really matter. We can call it prejudice or flaming or harassment. If you are attacking someone or even a general based on a characteristic that they cant do anything about and that alone people wont say it but they will be made uncomfortable and not want to play here. They will feel less than and unwanted.
If every day we have people on the server spamming "cracker" I think it should be disallowed same if it occurred with soft-a.
If you are in the camp that racism is about power dynamics thats fine. If you are in the came that racism is just any kind of prejudice thats also fine. These two things can coexist because at some point the bottom line is there needs to be a baselevel of respect for fellow community members. And if enough people are made uncomfortable because the jokes are over all they see is people attacking other people for being white. Then I think as a community we can ignore some of the sucky current global and national issues, and just say yeah im not going to project that onto ever person who joins our server. Who might not even be from an area where that is relevant.
tldr. Cracker like soft-a is fine to me. If it becomes a real issue where people are being attacked especially if some of the stuff from the last couple days continues. It should be revisited.
If someone pisses you off or other similar thing and you call them a cracker you will get a 6 point warn of some variety.
So far "cracker" has been an occasional thing usually someone talking to their friend or something, and hasn't really been used as some sort of attack against anyone on the server. If we want to make it officially like soft-a I dont really have and issue. But it will be enforced the same way we enforce soft-a.
The rest. Yeah no, I think that one we have enough community members that would be made uncomfortable for it to not be worth it. And two, those words have not been used in a positive way at all least here on dinks and I dont think that will change.
Personally, for this conversation how we are labeling what is racist or not doesn't really matter. We can call it prejudice or flaming or harassment. If you are attacking someone or even a general based on a characteristic that they cant do anything about and that alone people wont say it but they will be made uncomfortable and not want to play here. They will feel less than and unwanted.
If every day we have people on the server spamming "cracker" I think it should be disallowed same if it occurred with soft-a.
If you are in the camp that racism is about power dynamics thats fine. If you are in the came that racism is just any kind of prejudice thats also fine. These two things can coexist because at some point the bottom line is there needs to be a baselevel of respect for fellow community members. And if enough people are made uncomfortable because the jokes are over all they see is people attacking other people for being white. Then I think as a community we can ignore some of the sucky current global and national issues, and just say yeah im not going to project that onto ever person who joins our server. Who might not even be from an area where that is relevant.
tldr. Cracker like soft-a is fine to me. If it becomes a real issue where people are being attacked especially if some of the stuff from the last couple days continues. It should be revisited.
If someone pisses you off or other similar thing and you call them a cracker you will get a 6 point warn of some variety.