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Restrict "Death" threads. - r3vange - 07-24-2011
[color=#FFFFFF]With all due respect to the deceased, but I couldn't care less that for example Amy Winehouse has passed away. And though I never liked her the very thought that somebody has died craps my mood for at least a day. I believe this is a gaming community and as such it is my understanding that people are here to have fun...
Restrict "Death" threads. - Elven - 07-24-2011
People, let's simply restrict everything non-Disco related. Oh, why do we need those useless discussions which aren't directed to us personally?
Yeah, more restrictions, sure, we need more of those, definately.
Let's have a lot of fun with completely restricted forums, and then start to implent rules on skype, in game... What's next?
EDIT: Basically I agree with Xoria
Restrict "Death" threads. - Linkus - 07-24-2011
I don't really care to be honest.
Some folks lose relatives or someone they cared about.
For some reason, I don't know why exactly, they make a thread on a public forum about it.
Now that would suggest that they wish for people to give them sympathies, or accept they may not be around etc all the time or may be emotionally stressed etc.
Whatever the case is, I just avoid them.
I honestly don't wish them my condolences, since I'm not sorry a person died. If I was the cause, then an apology might be in order.
Regardless of the cause, I don't think a dead person really is a sad person.
It's those that are left behind. Those that make the topics.
A line of sympathy from myself won't make a difference I think.
I could be wrong but I highly doubt it.
Xoria's post is a good description of things. Including how his post is an example of what he wrote about, just as this one is.
If we are speaking what we believe, then we cannot be completely right, since it's all subjective. That sentence included.
All in all:
Marburg, simply ignore them. Whilst I've looked at some threads and wondered if someone really has died and have had a reply about such a wonder ready to post, you can't be sure.
Best to just say nothing at all.
Restrict "Death" threads. - Bear - 07-24-2011
' Wrote:For some reason, I don't know why exactly, they make a thread on a public forum about it.
For a period of time, after a person that somebody was close to has died it feels like a gaping hole has been ripped into a persons life in the place of the person they lost. Sometimes this highly emotional feeling isn't limited to people in the lives of so many, it might be a cat, or some other form of life. The empty feeling that a person has after they have lost somebody/something, makes them want to hold onto the memories that they have so fresh inside their minds. For some people, they want so much for the person/other that has died, to continue living. The only way that they feel the memories of them will live on, is by telling their story so that others may hear. Every single person is different, I accept that some might do it for attention or some other cause, but for the majority, let's respect the way that they are feeling and also respect their situation and they way that they have reacted.
In the end, it may seem petty to some people for a person to post something like that on the internet. But that's the way of the world now. Some people are more comfortable posting these things on a public forum, then talking to somebody that they are close to.
Thank you.
Restrict "Death" threads. - SA_Scavenger - 07-24-2011
' Wrote:Why stop at banning things we don't like? Let's ban people we don't like as well. Everybody write up your list and send it into the admins. By the end of next week, we'll all be banned and this will be the sterile, proper, harmonious place it is supposed to be. Things - people - Fair is fair after all.
Or maybe we should work on gaining the understanding that a community doesn't only include the things we like. It includes the good, pretty, bad, ugly, and humorless equally. And since it's all subjective, everything is good and bad, pretty and ugly, depending on your own prejudices, perspective, and values. What's dull to you is precious to someone else, and what is precious to you is a load of imbecility to someone else.
People want to blame politics, religion, race, sexism, etc for the world's problems, and go about trying to eliminate those "causes" wherever they find them, but most of the world's problems really boil down to small, self-absorbed, self-affirming groups of know it alls locked in their microscopic bubble of a world view who keep trying to control everyone else's lives "for their own good", and being willing to use force to do it. All the while they call it being enlightened and sophisticated. I just call it tyranny; small, medium, or large scale, it makes no difference.
That last paragraph is indeed profound, it shows why the world is in the shape it is. However, while that might be true on a larger scale, i.e. governments and so on. I think forums and games like freelancer are a place where a lot of people come to get away from politics, death and many other things. I also find myself wanting to type something about politics, life in general, people, culture and so on and I used to try. Until I realised, they don't really want to hear it, my world view or your world view just ain't that important. It's meant to be a game and many will actually "troll" to keep it that way.
It's funny how freelancer can really mimic real-life in many ways and that's why I can understand why people would sometimes feel the need to inform people about deaths and other problems in their life. It might not be good, it might not even be advised but it is the need for sympathy that makes us human.
Restrict "Death" threads. - The Clearinghouse - 07-25-2011
Says the man who got banned for trolling a dead girl.
Have some class.
As to the topic at hand, I dont feel they should be banned outright.
Is this the proper place to grieve? Probably not.
Is it inviting trolls? Yes. GOD YES.
That doesn't neccesarily neccesitate a ban.
Although really, If i cared about AmyWinehouse, there are AmyWinehouse forums.
Restrict "Death" threads. - Ayem - 07-25-2011
Sometimes the people who die are not in facebook or skype contact with the people they have or were continuing to interact with online.
In the same way a family will take an obituary in the local newspaper to inform all the people who care, or need to know, people will begin a thread on a forum.
If you never knew the person, pay no mind. It has nothing to do with you.
Restrict "Death" threads. - Dab - 07-25-2011
This will be discussed by the moderation team.
For the moment, I don't think it'd be a benefit for this discussion to continue, so, along with the effort to prevent it from turning into a not-so-nice thread we're familiar with, I'll lock this for now.
If we should come to make a policy against "death threads", we will make sure you all know.
Also, moved to Site and Board Feedback.