Minecraft Name:
Dr_Dragon_Slayer
Suggestion:
I am suggesting that the moderators and admins should better enforce swears and bad language. It has come to me in the last six months or so that somehow swear enforcement has been less strict. This suggestion is also in no way belittling the work of the admins and moderators, it would just be nice to keep the swears out of the community.
Reason:
This is a great thing to implement back into the community because I personally am friends with many young children who play on this server. The lowest age I have seen so far is nine years old. Usually in my house (and most children's houses) swearing is not tolerated. It would be nice to bring that to the community. Swearing is not justifiable in any means at all. There are many other ways to release your anger in a less barbaric way. Again, this is not trying to belittle the work of any staff. I also scanned the rules on the wiki and came up with a few clauses supporting my claim.

Clause 3 - Harassment

• Harassment constitutes as any form of action (chat or game play wise) that makes another player feel threatened or otherwise ruins their game play.
  • Griefing in the wild does not constitute harassment. Harassment in the wild is strictly chat/command based.
• This includes, but is not limited to; blackmail, bullying or any other form of harassment that occurs through our chat system.
• Attempting to kill other players in any non-PvP zone also constitutes as harassment, and succeeding in killing other players in non-PvP areas is a very severe offence that will result in a ban.

Section 4 - Chat, Channels and Discussions
Clause 1 - General Chat Rules

• All chat is to go into the appropriate channel at all times. Any user who is consistently not using the correct channel, especially in a way that may disturb those attempting to use certain channels, may be removed from the channel and/or punished. For information about channels and chat commands, please visit our Server Commands page.

Clause 2 - Vulgarity

• Inappropriate and vulgar language is not allowed. This includes anything put on signs, said in chat, written in books, renamed to on items (see Section 3 Clause 2.1), spelt out in blocks, or any other way of communicating.
  • Occasional mild to moderate vulgarities that are not directed at anyone (such as "slip-ups" or saying them in the incorrect chat by accident), self-censorship of a swear word or abbreviations that may imply a swear word (ie. WTF?) are allowed unless it is directed at another user.
• Repeated or excessive swearing, and especially vulgar language directed at anyone, is not tolerated under any circumstance.
• Racist language or prejudicial language of any sort falls under the vulgarity rule, and is considered a very serious offence, punishment of which may not warrant a warning before being given.

Clause 3 - Inappropriate/Touchy Subjects and Discussions

• EcoCityCraft is a server community consisting of many age groups, religious groups, and political backgrounds. As such, there are many touchy subjects that we do not allow in our public channels in order to keep the peace and prevent arguments and flame wars from occurring.
• All chat must be kept appropriate and clean at all times. There is to be no discussion of anything deemed inappropriate for a workplace, including, but not limited to, sexuality, excessive violence, alcohol/drugs and inappropriate or dark humor.
• This rule extends into subjects about illegal substances or actions, including drugs.
• Politics, religion, banned users, and suicide are common “touchy subjects”, however they are not the only ones. Should a staff member ask you to change a subject they feel is touchy and/or is causing the direction of chat to deviate towards an argument or flame war, you must drop the subject immediately.

Thank you for reading and I would like to remind all that this was made or intending in any shape or form to offend or belittle staff, the owner, or anyone at all. Thank you.

 

Reason?

 

So far, in response to my suggestion I have gotten many different types of people. I have some that just use some pretty bad language to express their emotions about it, which is what this would help avoid... the same person has been repeatedly telling me to, "stfu". I've been told that this swearing rule has been more strictly enforced as we step into the future. But why does this person, who is speaking in global continue to do this? Nobody has said a word about it, which is very sad for me. If a moderator had messaged him about it and told him to knock it off or warn him about it, it could have helped and he would stop. Putting disdain or contempt for another community members idea into some barbaric slang word that should not be used in public is awful. I loved the way some people expressed their anger or contempt for my idea with words of intelligence and defending their opposing claim correctly! I praise them (@daemosa64 and @Assajj_Ventress and many more) for putting their opinions out there and defending it without swearing. Again, this is in no way an attempt to annoy, anger, or belittle the work of the community, especially the moderators and administrators who run the server.

Thank you.

 

I totally see where your coming from about sheltering and all of that. Now a "bad word" became bad because a person probably, this is only a guess, used a certain word or phrase in a derogatory way to offend somebody. It caught on in society and it is still used today. The problem is that it should not be something that people should be getting used to. More and more I see more and more swears popping up. I was told the other day not to say a certain phrase because it could lead to children finding some nasty content. That's great, awesome that the staff are protecting people from learning about bad content. But we really do not need to have people swearing left and right. Why is it called for? Do people just need to swear? I just think it should be enforced a lot more so that the people who swear stop, and don't do it again. It's just not needed and even if your not using it to be derogatory, why use it at all? I could just say, "Hey man, that's not cool" or "Can you please stop" or shout "Go away!" There is no need for swearing. There is also a saying that I was taught, or a rule to life to live by. If you swear too much, then what use is a swear? People won't take you seriously if you swear too much. Swearing should at least, at the very least, be used at the utmost minimum if you some how have the urge to swear.

 

I totally agree @Skylexia but I don't think it should become a habit. I could more say that this thread was posted to cause some awareness to this problem.

 

Of course we could never censor the chat fully, not my intention anyway. I just want to basically bring awareness and stop people from swearing so much. You saying that it is an affectionate thing, yes I get it. While in my house it's not okay to swear in other places and times it certainly is. Sometimes people have issues conveying affection or joking around in a chat where people can't see your face, emotions, etc. When you call your fiance a "bad word" you two have an understanding. I don't think you do that in public, or around people you don't know. This is exactly like that. People don't see it as an affection they see it as something else. Of course the internet is not a clean place but we can clean up the gum off our community.

 

Also, I am going to sleep because I'm tired. I'll read the posts later in the morning. Thank you for all the passionate responses to my question!

Night!