What to do about racism in OpenRA - Red Alert?

[pointbreak]

I guess I have to stop positioning my units like that for the Iron Curtain cause OP might see a resemblence of an Iron Cross in it.

[givepeasachance]

c) anjew, I had to laugh reading that youre coming from an culture where being rude is a convention. You come from Israel?

I love how OP starts this thread about atrocities of racism, but OP goes and throws this blatantly racist joke in as if it is nbd. How about all the other things you mentioned, including the extra vulgar Donald J N, are just stupid racist jokes, just like the one you yourself made in this thread. It's just a dumb joke, laugh at if it's funny to you, ignore it if it's not, and move on with your life?

Is it racist? Well it might be, if so, I'm sorry. My reaction was based on experiences with Isrealis around their 20s to early 30s in Israel and travelling on other continents. And I do remember some of them saying that about their "culture". Still it shouldnt excuse this, but maybe it makes it more understandable for you.

[givepeasachance]

Any response to my idea? Or just gonna pretend i didn't post it?

Filtering all text and player names seems like a sure way to save people that might be offended?

Well, I am way behind your capabilities there. You should check out pointbreak on that matter!

Still I do not get why it is problematic to problematize the aforementioned -isms and why this turns effectively into virtual victim blaming - meaning "people that might be offended" - implying, that they usually shouldnt be.

[Sleipnir]

This thread may be about offensive behaviour, but that does not mean it is on-topic to be offensive or attack people here. I have removed a series of posts that violate the forum rules against agressive behaviour and derailing topics.

[pointbreak]

This thread may be about offensive behaviour, but that does not mean it is on-topic to be offensive or attack people here. I have removed a series of posts that violate the forum rules against agressive behaviour and derailing topics.

Code your shitty filter then so that this raging leftist can have another safe space.

[pointbreak]

Also I think the startpage of openra.net should say "Welcome back, Commanderess" and every 2nd soldier should be a woman, a black or a homo.

[maceman]

Ok my post got deleted. I didn't think it was offensive or aggressive but yea. I suppose trying to add some humor was a bad idea.

The suggestion was to have a "child safe mode" option in game which would hide all chat messages, and replace player names with numbers, or with random names from a list.

Players with this option on would need to be identifiable by others so they know chat messages wont be seen.

This might help appease people regularly suffering distress from player names and chat messages in game until a potential moderation or something similar is put in place to control everyone.

[Clockwork]

why is this a thing

[Materianer]

just because you got upset about some kid in germany pretenting to be a nazi, and using some racist word in their name?

I'm also sometimes victim of racism, people calling me a nazi because i'm from germany.
My hint how to tread such people is just calling them racist or ignoring them.
You could of course troll them in several ways but i think ignoring and beating them on the battlefield is the best way.

That might get better with the accounts when you dont see where someone else is from.

[anjew]

That might get better with the accounts when you dont see where someone else is from.

People think this is a benefit when in reality its just another box people check before kicking someone from the game. Then if they don't kick them its time to make a smart remark about their locale.
For the past like, 4 years, (even prior to moving into a place with shitter internet) I've been getting "Australia ping, kick" while the orange England fella lags the game up. I believe this problem is amplified even more for people who are from more remote countries.

But I think one of the primary points that Sleipnir brought up is that this is a game that makes use of dedicated servers, the responsibility to deal with these issues ultimately falls upon the server owner, not the game development team.
This is the same case for most games that dont use a p2p type of connection to match players. In CSS or CSGO, you don't go to Valve and ask them to ban a racist on the community servers. They really only ban players who hack (via VAC) because its a violation of the ToS etc.

[AMHOL]

Seriously? You're all gonna let catgirls troll you again because he comes here with some leftie bullshit?

There's only one answer to this kind of shit, if you can't handle the heat, get out of the kitchen. If everyone has equal rights, then why do your rights to police my speech Trump my right to freedom of speech?

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c) anjew, I had to laugh reading that youre coming from an culture where being rude is a convention. You come from Israel?
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That's pretty racist man, someone ban this chick.

[Sleipnir]

If everyone has equal rights, then why do your rights to police my speech Trump my right to freedom of speech?

It's getting difficult to distinguish between troll/satire and legitimately broken ideas. Just in case you are being serious, I'm going to point out what should be common sense: The right to free speech means that the government can't arrest you for speaking out against them. If you go into a bar or shop and behave in a way that deliberately makes other patrons uncomfortable, then you will get kicked out. This is not a violation of your rights – if you are visitor in somebody else space then you are obliged to follow their rules.

I'm giving a second and final warning from our rules:

This forum is not a host to aggression towards others, if you disagree with other users then settle the matter politely.

[AMHOL]

Just ban me then...

[JuiceBox]

Look at the chaos that ensues when you give snowflakes validity. One could even consider that the original post is a troll and is laughing at the carnage he has just caused.
This thread should have been removed by now.

[JuiceBox]

So my post got deleted for 0 reason. I see the forum is still a circus then