Forum censorship is toxic

[CEO Hunter]

My statement is that Forum censorship is toxic

[XPho3nixRisingX]

Originally posted by Boblin the Goblin:

Originally posted by 76561198083042378:

Nice one lol. Yeah anything in your profile that someone can't see if they click on it... Or posts made on a privated profile... You know what private means right? Do you need a dictionary?

So that means someone who can see it reported it.

Incorrect unless you mean someone from steem which would be hilarious...

[Boblin the Goblin]

Originally posted by 76561198083042378:

Originally posted by Boblin the Goblin:

So that means someone who can see it reported it.

Incorrect

If anyone can see it, it can be reported.

[XPho3nixRisingX]

Originally posted by Boblin the Goblin:

Originally posted by 76561198083042378:

Incorrect

If anyone can see it, it can be reported.

Only people who "might've" been able to see it were steem employees. Try harder

[Boblin the Goblin]

Originally posted by 76561198083042378:

Originally posted by Boblin the Goblin:

If anyone can see it, it can be reported.

Only people who "might've" been able to see it were steem employees. Try harder

After the report, yes.

[XPho3nixRisingX]

Before the ban, yes. Just doesn't want to admit an AI flags... Not like steem isn't borderline spyware anyways...

[Zarineth]

Originally posted by 76561198083042378:

Before the ban, yes. Just doesn't want to admit an AI flags... Not like steem isn't borderline spyware anyways...

The goalpost moved so far already, that soon we won't even see it...

[XPho3nixRisingX]

I know they don't teach english anymore...

[XPho3nixRisingX]

Not your friend, but alright. You didn't seem to know what an accusation was, I never claimed you were directly guilty of being an alt... I implied it.

[XPho3nixRisingX]

But now that I've said what I intended to and the conversation is going nowhere I'll go back to playing games.

[Mad Scientist]

Originally posted by 76561198083042378:

Name bans, bio bans, personal info bans, profile comment bans, game review bans etc.

You know most people still know what the username you had was, right?
Just like VACs, sometimes permanent restrictions are because someone chose to do something worthy of permanent punishment.

[RSebire]

When your ideas can’t stand up to scrutiny = Censorship

[Ēarendel]

Valve and their entire staff are a sad joke when it comes to fairness in moderating the forums. Worst part of this software. As you say, double standards, unwritten rules, politicization and censorship. And the best part is, they don't care. They only care about money, not customer satisfaction. Greed.

[ナスライダー]

People should be able to just be themselves. You can't be yourself if you're always afraid of being arrested or killed or banned on a forum. It's all the same and comes from the same kind of mindset. The moment you don't fall in line with an echo chamber or act just like someone else, you have to be dealt with.

Censorship is useless because:

A. It's easy to find porn and nudity. You can mistakenly find it on the internet by just looking for something else.
B. You can easily meet someone in a multiplayer game that cusses or says something you don't like or does something sexual in a virtual reality game or calls your momma a fat joke. You'll probably find a lot of those people, and by then the damage is already done.
C. At school your kid could easily come across something you won't like. I remember one day finding pages torn out of a porn book all over the place at school in like fifth grade. This was back in the 80's or 90's when I was a little girl. I was like WTF.

It's all life. IMO people don't get prepared for life or are prepared for it, because they can't deal or handle with situations that may come up or understand how to prevent such situations. They just want to shut anyone up that doesn't agree with them or arrest them. They're okay with acting with violence on you, but if you fight back you're evil for doing so.

Censorship itself is life though, it's been around since the dawn of time. It's been in all cultures and societies and religions. It won't be going anywhere anytime soon.

It's just how I feel about it, I'd love it if people could just be themselves. I think a lot of anger comes from that too, if everyone keeps their foot on your throat and has a noose over your head threatening you for something you might say or do, no matter what it is, you'll get resentful and feel hatred towards them for that, and I see that as just being human and normal to feel that way. I think people need love and censorship is something that deprives people of that.

[JamesF0790]

Originally posted by Allise:

People should be able to just be themselves. You can't be yourself if you're always afraid of being arrested or killed or banned on a forum. It's all the same and comes from the same kind of mindset. The moment you don't fall in line with an echo chamber or act just like someone else, you have to be dealt with.

Censorship is useless because:

A. It's easy to find porn and nudity. You can mistakenly find it on the internet by just looking for something else.
B. You can easily meet someone in a multiplayer game that cusses or says something you don't like or does something sexual in a virtual reality game or calls your momma a fat joke. You'll probably find a lot of those people, and by then the damage is already done.
C. At school your kid could easily come across something you won't like. I remember one day finding pages torn out of a porn book all over the place at school in like fifth grade. This was back in the 80's or 90's when I was a little girl. I was like WTF.

It's all life. IMO people don't get prepared for life or are prepared for it, because they can't deal or handle with situations that may come up or understand how to prevent such situations. They just want to shut anyone up that doesn't agree with them or arrest them. They're okay with acting with violence on you, but if you fight back you're evil for doing so.

Censorship itself is life though, it's been around since the dawn of time. It's been in all cultures and societies and religions. It won't be going anywhere anytime soon.

It's just how I feel about it, I'd love it if people could just be themselves. I think a lot of anger comes from that too, if everyone keeps their foot on your throat and has a noose over your head threatening you for something you might say or do, no matter what it is, you'll get resentful and feel hatred towards them for that, and I see that as just being human and normal to feel that way. I think people need love and censorship is something that deprives people of that.

If you start screaming obscenities in a restaurant you get kicked out .Same thing here.

[xBCxRangers]

People in the UK are gonna find out what "censorship" is, be it here on Steam or others. On the off topics they have to be very careful.

Times they are a changin, and here in the states, even proposals (i think it passed 93 to 3 in the Senate) to have these gaming sites and social media crack down on younger accounts, and more regulation as to how these sites are run, particularly with children.

States, coming out with their own regulations in regards to adult content.

These matters are, or are coming to Steam eventually.

Whether its Steam censorship, or in regards to our governments.

We may indeed find out, Mr Newell may end the forums, being it's too much liability, and too many changes need to be made to make them viable or worth it.