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    i agree 100% with that but it also spams the alliance chat as well and sometimes u cant even see wut others type.

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    easy only show wars declared upon your alliance

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    The problem is, what is offensive to some is not to others. Unfortunately, free speech is stuck in a very large grey area. If these people weren't spamming, would you really be that offended by the names? I mean, there are words that are automatically banned, but what about words like Satan and Pagan? These are terms that certainly a Christian player would find offensive.

    The real problem? Spamming. Not acceptable on any terms in any way. Down with those that want to clutter the chat with useless drollery. Good thing it requires an item to speak in world chat, right? >; )
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    Quote Originally Posted by indignantbeauty View Post
    The problem is, what is offensive to some is not to others. Unfortunately, free speech is stuck in a very large grey area. If these people weren't spamming, would you really be that offended by the names? I mean, there are words that are automatically banned, but what about words like Satan and Pagan? These are terms that certainly a Christian player would find offensive.

    The real problem? Spamming. Not acceptable on any terms in any way. Down with those that want to clutter the chat with useless drollery. Good thing it requires an item to speak in world chat, right? >; )
    BAM! Nailed on the head.

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    Quote Originally Posted by indignantbeauty View Post
    Unfortunately, free speech is stuck in a very large grey area.
    What people seem to not understand is that you do NOT have freedom of speech while playing Evony. Whenever you log in, you are agreeing to the terms and conditions of service. This information is on the home page. Those terms state that names of a racist nature are against the rules, and players using them will be banned. The Devs have also stated in several threads that such names are against the terms of use. Using such names when logged in is considered a breach of contract under American law and that law does NOT protect your freedom of speech when such speech violates the legal agreement every player made with the developers.
    Last edited by Valin; 05-27-2009 at 01:22 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Valin View Post
    Those terms state that names of a racist nature are against the rules, and players using them will be banned. .
    Right, but how does one determine what is deemed "racist"? Obviously nig... can't be used, but what about milano, derogatory towards a mixed white and black person? That falls into that grey area I was talking about. The obvious ones are banned already...
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    Actually, the obvious ones arn't. Server three had an hour of 100's of war declarations between alliance NIG*ERS and everyone else. Kept the chat from being used. You can't use the obvious words in the chat, but player and alliance names aren't filtered or blocked. I think you ment mulato which describes biracials as "wasted breeding". Milano is a cookie. Good ones to.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wallac3 View Post
    cryptopsy are u not running for queen of evony? for u to talk down on me and others who hate the fact that they do this is wrong for a queen. Shouldn't u be focusing on the problems such as these? If this is how u are gunna act then u are not fit to be queen.
    You just lost some credit with me.

    This is the whole problem. The big giant issue. People take things way too seriously. Look what the whole evony queen contest launched? Campaigns against it for morals, ethics, and gender descrimination. March like the politicians I say.

    Now you're taking this and throwing it in her face? A contest? Now she has to "behave and act like a queen." I like her because she's saying what she feels, not putting on some face for the public. This is not a political campaign.

    Too many people are mixing imaginary with reality. I see "hate" words all tthe time, but you know what? I don't see them. I rub them out of my life. Erase them from my eyes. And don't come at me from the angle that "it's people like me that ignore these things and now they germinate into monsters like Hitler." There was rolls and rolls of threads already on that. I don't want to go back there.

    These people do it for shock value. Now you feed them. You show them it bothers you. Now its going to continue. Because you feed them. You show them it bothers you. Well guess what... its going to continue...

    Get the idea?

    Don't ignore HATE ... Erase it. There's a difference.

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    If the game had such a bad rep, it would not be growing so quick and have such high population. My opinion is that people who get offended with things like this, and prolly do irl as well, need to get out and build a life for themselves. It amazes me how some people focus on being so politically correct and spend so much time doing so. I am not politically correct and refuse to ever be so. I state what I believe and what I think. If you dont like an alliances name, declare war and make people leave the alliance.

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    Duh, milano is a black and white cookie, get it, she was right. Besides, who are these people crying about their young children playing this game and worring about them seeing "bad" alliance/usernames. If they're too young to understand the names or why some would use them, then they should probably be watching Sesame Street or maybe doing homework, or maybe, just maybe, their parents should pull them away and actually spend time with them doing something constructive in the REAL world. You know like going to the park or here's an idea, spending quality family time with them. This is the internet, pretty much a public place now. When your at the restaurant and the people at the table behind you are cursing, I bet you don't even whisper a word under your breath about them, probably cause your in fear of getting a whooping, but here people love to complain about "mean" words. Grow up, it's a fact of life, people choose mean allaince names cause they know people like you will have a tissy.

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