The Language Rule

[Dr Brain]

NOTE: I *will* moderate this thread. Post without reading, and expect to have your post deleted.

 

Everyone seems to misunderstand the language rule in some way or another, so I will lay it out here.

 

I am not someone who can't stand swears. This is not a way for me to prevent my little mind from shattering. Sorry. [Edit by Nerusai: He wants to prevent my fragile mind from shattering]

 

I started playing SubSpace at a time in my life when I was closely watched on the computer. The swears in some zones were frowned upon by my parents. While they no longer watch me, and would no longer care if I read swears online, the fact is that many kids are still watched on the computer. This rule is meant to create an enviorment where you can have your chat read over your shoulder and not have to worry about what other players are saying.

 

Also, initially, the zone was only played by my friends and I. Only the random player entering would swear. Because most of my friends had a closely watched problem, I started the no swearing rule. This rule went largly ignored for a long time. Come area2, I started enforcing like I should have.

 

I have never layed out publicly what exactly cons!@#$%^&*ues a swear. There are some very good reasons for this. By keeping the rule vague, it is easier to enforce and easier to keep people from walking the line. I don't want every instance of **** replaced with some lesser swear that isn't on the "bad word list". That doesn't help at all. So, I still won't make a list of swears.

 

I will never remove the no swearing rule. Not that I even want to, but if I did, because of how newbie minds work, Hyperspace would have more swearing than any other zone in SS. So, now that it has been put into place, there is no choice but to continue with it.

 

Lets face it, most of the people who swear are the 12-14 year olds who aren't allowed to swear in real life. There are three possibilites for them when faced with a no swearing rule:

 

1.) Stop swearing. This is a good thing.

2.) Leave. Not as good, but remember, they are annoying anyway.

3.) Swear anyway, and get banned. Can't really stop this one. They feel that they have to look tough by breaking rules. They just didn't count on anything actually happening to them.

 

Everyone else who swears usually does so as an emotinal indicator similar to the similes (). These people usually have no problem stopping. It's a lot easier to stop someone typing swears than to stop someone saying them.

 

I have noticed that the moderators are starting to get lax about the swearing rule again. Do not interpret this as an invitation to start swearing, or you will get a rude awakening.

 

Following the spirt of the no swearing rule, I would also like to start moving discussions that are rated higher than PG to non public chats. Mods won't moderate private team chats, private ?chats, and private arenas. So feel free to move your off color conversations there. Additionally, as long as there is no swearing going along with it, most mods will look the other way at adult themed conversations in subarenas. But I would like to stress again that adult conversations in the public arenas are no longer acceptable. This is a new rule, so you will probably get a few warnings first.

 

I have found that the no swearing rule has created a much friendlier veteran population than we used to have. It does tend to make frequent swearers keep quieter than they might otherwise be, but I don't see this as a big problem. The zone's public chat might not be as active as other zone's, but the conversations occupy a much higher percentage.

 

One last thing: Veteran offenders.

Vets are always in sight of new players. They are a "role model", if you will, of zone behavior. So, if you wear your "banned 11 times for swearing" as a badge of honor, you'll probably get a rude awakening of a much longer ban than usual.

 

Ugh, this took me too long to write. I was gonna say more, but I ran out of energy. Night.

[nikegurl637]

So I can't publicly express my love for boldot anymore?

[FunkmastaD]

Love is PG

Cybering would be considered a little more R or X rated

[Dr Brain]

Yes, what funk said.

 

Basicly, "I love you" is fine but for anything else get a subarena.

[a n00b.]

i just thought i'd be really rude and say: enforcing*

[Dr Brain]

Fixed.

[a n00b.]

o.O yay

[Siaon]

I have noticed that the moderators are starting to get lax about the swearing rule again. Do not interpret this as an invitation to start swearing, or you will get a rude awakening.

 

I would call this more lenient, yet as soon as Dr Brain comes knocking on my door what it is all about it will be all game over again; We are not Big Brother, if someone that never makes any problems lets out a simple small swear, I'm not someone to immediatly frown upon it, yet the policies are there, so contain yourself.

[Shrop]

i thought that rule only meant towards massively using cuss word repedively, or just using the "f" word to much,and racial shoot downs.

[Dr Brain]

No. Even a single swear is breaking the rule. Some of the mods wont punish for a single swear, but some will.

[Wargh!!!]

Basicly, "I love you" is fine but for anything else get a subarena.

'Get a subarena'

LOL! thats such a good one

 

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