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<LI><em>Subject</em>: Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: Matthew Mihaly <<A HREF="mailto:the_logos#achaea,mudservices.com">the_logos#achaea,mudservices.com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 00:56:57 +0000 (GMT)</LI>
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On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 adam#treyarch,com wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Matthew Mihaly wrote:
> > I can't ever really guarantee a player the ability to say anything he
> > wants. For instance, no player would be allowed to use a public channel to
> > express homophobic or racist views.
>
> Yes - and in addition, I'd argue that this rule has little to do with these
> specific subjects, and more to do with the fact that they are so far outside
> the realm of what your forum offers to its members that their presence
> is jarring.
From my point of view, it has nothing to do with ooc issues, but simply
that I, as the admin, am not going to stand for my world being used as a
place to spout off views I find noxious in the extreme.
>
> I would gag/discon/ban someone just as quickly for expressing anti-homophobic
> or anti-racist views out of the blue as I would the reverse. A mud is a
> shared fantasy, and discussions of this nature shatter that fantasy,
> regardless of whether the ideas being presented are "morally right" or not.
I wouldn't. There's nothing out of role about homophobia, racism, or
anti-homophobia, or anti-racism. We have a number of homosexual characters
in Achaea, for instance, and have even dealt with the issue of same-sex
marriages.
--matt
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00030" HREF="msg00030.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster@origin.ea.com">rkoster@origin.ea.com</a>, Tue 04 Apr 2000, 16:11 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00063" HREF="msg00063.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens</A></strong>,
adam <a href="mailto:adam@treyarch.com">adam@treyarch.com</a>, Wed 05 Apr 2000, 18:45 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00076" HREF="msg00076.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens</A></strong>,
Matthew Mihaly <a href="mailto:the_logos@achaea.mudservices.com">the_logos@achaea.mudservices.com</a>, Fri 07 Apr 2000, 01:29 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00078" HREF="msg00078.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens</A></strong>,
Jon Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc@ix.netcom.com">jlsysinc@ix.netcom.com</a>, Fri 07 Apr 2000, 15:19 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00082" HREF="msg00082.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens</A></strong>,
Rasdan <a href="mailto:rasdan@home.com">rasdan@home.com</a>, Fri 07 Apr 2000, 16:53 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00085" HREF="msg00085.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens</A></strong>,
Matthew Mihaly <a href="mailto:the_logos@achaea.mudservices.com">the_logos@achaea.mudservices.com</a>, Fri 07 Apr 2000, 20:37 GMT
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