[Discuss] speech, cursing, vulgarity

[Josiah Allen]

On 2/15/07, Jonathon Taylor <jonathon.its.never.enough at googlemail.com>
wrote:
>
> On 14/02/07, Anthony Anderson <phoenixsunrise at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 2/14/07, zmobiebob <saintmaggot at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > "Ignorance," "good breeding," "taste," "crude" or even the "ordinary
> > > people in a society" are all subjective, region- and roleplay-dependent
> > > factors. There already ARE laws of noble conduct - such as in Abington - in
> > > which nobles who are acting inappropriate get punished. This is how it
> > > should be, not some grand top-down rules to apply an artificial standard to
> > > all realms everywhere.
> > >
> >
> > And if it's the King?  The Judge?  Or perhaps between two Kings?  How
> > are they dealt with?  Most of you seem to be too shortsighted to see the big
> > picture here.  And the vulgarity complaint option is a far cry from "some
> > grand top-down rules to apply to an artificial standard".  Don't twist my
> > words.
>
>
> I like the idea but it's not exactly appropriate, as much as nobles are
> expected to be honour bound and courteous, what about the few realms and
> people in the game who have they're characters as Pirates? There's a guy I
> play with who talks like a pirate, every time he speaks and he speaks often,
> and it's been almost a year now and i'm constantly giving him RP medals
> because of it, but how can you be talking like a pirate without being
> abusive? Sure, he is slightly withheld at times because he's a noble now but
> he still has a rather foul mouth.
>
> True, a line does have to be drawn, and there isn't any excuse to be using
> fuck all the time, but, without mentioning names I had a character OOC
> banned once because I said "fucking" in an OOC message about three months
> prior and said it again in an OOC message when the game lost a huge message
> I was about to send (it was took to the Titans and sorted, kind of), but if
> there was another way to 'punish' people who swear I'd very much appreciate
> it and encourage it as long as the realm or selected person could choose
> whether or not it was appropriate or not, and *not* game mechanics.
>
> I should have held my self back, an OOC ban on me totally wasn't necessary
> but at the same time there isn't any other way to appropriately punish some
> one for being vulgar. I'm thinking it would be best that a person is voted
> OOC to challenge such matters within a realm and is given options ( i.e.
> like the OOC ban) to hold the games integrity, because I still don't
> understand why a Realms ruler has the option of an OOC ban, because we vote
> them into power for they're character. Not they're OOC ability to be fair, I
> have always thought that perhaps these powers should go to a strictly OOC
> voted person to withhold the games and realms integrity. As this one person
> will know what the realm sees as appropriate, i.e. a Pirate realm would be
> more lenient with swearing than an aristocratic realm and game mechanics
> won't.
>
>
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Ye can easily talk like a sea dog without usin' swear words. Fer example, `I
robbunk th' fool an' tookst his girl fer me own uses, I did. I may go t' to
th' devil`s lair when I sink t'Davy Jones' locker but thar`s nothin' he can
do t' me I haven`t had done t' me before, so screw off ye cowardly ninny.


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