Hayate

the problem is that this rule clearly doesnt work. if the word was so underused like you are claiming, we wouldnt have this thread. ive not been here for a long time, yet the amount of times i have heard the use of slurs is unbeaten by any other server or game (with maybe the exception of rust). Also, this doesnt fix the problem of that word tainting the reputation of this server when you could just not say the word. "words are words" is something usually said by someone clearly not targeted by these words and/or without a past of being a target of harrassment.

i find it very weird that people get so incredibly defensive over their "right" to make their character call other people slurs. i really want someone to make a clear argument why one should keep the specific broad slurs even though it shows the community as unwelcoming for LGBT people, it conflicts with Twitch TOS thus making it difficult for streamers which would help opening the community as well; while not falling into going to hypotheticals about "when they ban these words what will be next" or calling people snowflakes.

the snowflake argument just isnt an argument that makes one sound credible. this isnt about how someone is sitting at a game interacting with little computer pixel people. this is, by proxy, human to human interaction. Without meaning disrespect, as im sure that you didnt mean it disrespectful either, but just saying "its an 18+ game" or "GTAV also uses these slurs" is kind of hiding behind the issue at hand. its an interaction with other people just like you and me, just with a game inbetween. and (again without implying you mean it that way) i think the least one can do is have the respect towards another individual youre sitting on the other side of virtually. this isnt just a thing of a few snowflakes. a significant amount of people can be targeted by the usual slurs, no matter if they get hurt by them or not, and for people getting their first impression through streams or first interactions on the server, this just doesnt show a picture fo a welcome community.

i have to disagree with that. the word doesnt gain meaning by the way how i see it. It always had a meaning. and that meaning is to be a discriminatory word against - in this case - homosexuals, and by association people of different sexualities than gay. The way people have used this word at me isnt in a way that was open to interpretation. i feel it isnt the point of a community to have to figure out if a word is supposed to be meant as a derogatory term, as a general curse, or whatever other way it could be meant. Because the thing is, while someone who isnt LGBT can interpret that word as something harmless, (heck, even some LGBT people dont take it serious) it can be taken very badly by someone else. And that can just be avoided by just not using that type of language.

i feel like that as part of the LGBT community and as someone who has been called the F slur IRL for example, i feel like it would be a welcome gesture to limit or remove these kinds of words alltogether. Such a thing makes roleplay situations very awkward for me, because i either have the option of ignoring it, and letting it eat into myself, calling it out OOC and breaking the flow of the roleplay (no matter if its a positive or negative response to my request) or calling it out IC and making a whole conflict between characters that i dont think would fit the character i would like to portray.