Tanagwal wrote on 2015-10-09:
Half support?
Now, I'm squeamish as heck. To the point that I avoid looking in Plague lairs.
I don't understand why the staff allows exposed organs but not blood. But I'd be all for removing all gore from the game, Plague flight included.
Some good points have been made here, they need to decide where the boundary of "OK" is and let everyone know.
Now, I'm squeamish as heck. To the point that I avoid looking in Plague lairs.
I don't understand why the staff allows exposed organs but not blood. But I'd be all for removing all gore from the game, Plague flight included.
Some good points have been made here, they need to decide where the boundary of "OK" is and let everyone know.
But I'd be all for removing all gore from the game, Plague flight included.
That's precisely what we're afraid of though. Where's the cut off?
Like I had mentioned before in another thread, and like other people had mentioned similarly, it's a slippery slope. This wasn't such a huge issue as it is now, say, 2 years ago. But every time RoR comes up on the yearly festival chain, everyone loses their minds. I can't think of anything else other then, people that might have issues with blood or gore, having done a Contact Us form about it bothering them, and (honestly now I'm afraid to even mention admins in any sort anymore...) the admins tried to make it less accessible. Which is fair. We don't want people getting upset while trying to have a fun time.
The problem, like I said, arises when FR is trying for an end goal of open registration. Which I assume they are. Where the majority of people can join daily, from all over the world, and we can have a huge community of awesome people. This causes new problems, though, because when you have a world wide community, you have different things that people and cultures are okay and are not okay with. We all understand this.
What's making this hard, though, is that there's a huge level of "do as I say, not as I do" going on. Okay, so we know that the word 'blood' wont be banned. That it was just an over saturation of the discussion and people, myself included, being salty. Cool. That's a step in the right direction. But we still need to address the issue that there are mixed messages being sent out. That the idea of a plague flight can exist at all with blood and rotten flesh as their back bone, but the idea of 'too much of it' being unacceptable.
So then, what's constitutes 'too much'?
There's been mention of guidelines being put into place (for the last few days), that will state what is and is not okay in creation of content. That still hasn't happened and I doubt it will happen until the contest for RoR is over, which is kinda counter productive and doesn't help with the situation right now, but it is what it is. The idea still stands that there needs to be clear and concise specifics into what is and isn't acceptable. And until that happens, there's going to be break down in communication.
It's why Graves can't have a cigar.
[yes I am meme lord trash.]
