On reducing vitriol

[Strife ❤️]

Don't bully

[Bloble]

"I do not smoke wit what tha fuck you gotta say yo, but I be bout ta defend ta tha dirtnap yo' right ta say dat shit."

[Spinach]

Don't bully

All the mods should adopt Akari avatars to show their seriousness toward dealing with this forum atmosphere problem.

[Arashi_Leonhart]

that actually is pretty bad tho

This is part of the point that Bloble was making, tho. People don't use it to be insulting, they don't even know about how it was back in the 1940s or anything, they're just shortening "Japanese" down just like someone might call a British person a Brit. Yet they take offense to that--and I'm not claiming they shouldn't--but then it brings up how 1) a couple people can take offense to something not meant to be offensive, 2) how you can start censoring a word for just those few people, and 3) how that can set a precedent for other things that one or two people might find offensive that snowballs into a ton of other things, at which point you have to ask yourself where do you actually stop?

[Paitouch]

All the mods should adopt Akari avatars to show their seriousness toward dealing with this forum atmosphere problem.

This is an Akari avatar nanodesupoi.

[Mcjon01]

you have to ask yourself where do you actually stop?

Never. You never stop. Whatever you do, commit to the bitter end.

[Arashi_Leonhart]

Never. You never stop. Whatever you do, commit to the bitter end.

Exactly. Ban all the words.

[Paitouch]

Is there actually such a thing as too many jokes?

Yes, but you should still keep going anyways nanodesupoi.

　

[Gold5]

Never. You never stop. Whatever you do, commit to the bitter end.

Isn't that the whole point of what EMIYA warned us about?

[Cruor]

Can I use Elevens to describe Japanese and Twos and Threes for Mexican and Canadians?

[NuitTombee]

It's ok Pai, you can just substitute nanodesupoi for whatever controversial words you'd like to say.

Heh.

[Thedoctor]

Can I use Elevens to describe Japanese and Twos and Threes for Mexican and Canadians?

Britannian elitist get out of here..

[Sinon]

Can I use Elevens to describe Japanese and Twos and Threes for Mexican and Canadians?

It depends on your nationality.

[Marmadillo]

Here's my 2 cents as a relative newbie. How I see it, the mods are simply reminding people to have some basic civility in conversations, be mindful of the other person, especially if you don't know them too well. Personally I've spent 5 years in 4chan and can deal with vitriol well enough and can dish some back, but there's bound to be enough people who don't frequent the cesspools of the internet, but have somehow become a fan of some Typemoon property. And they will probably be put off by that slang. Even I generally think that a guy has spent too much time in a basement if he constantly uses chanspeak outside imageboards. Obviously there's also the fact that the discussions often involve enough e-peen to become unpleasant for one or both sides, but that's characteristic for a lot of places of course.

Considering the use of words and phrases, I'm on the side of those people who defend their right to talk dumb. I think banning words just encourages people to pay less attention to the context of their usage, which is a bigger problem, in internet discussions at least. Also, different terms for mental or other disabilities and disorders have always been one of the main sources for swear words. Idiot, loon, cretin, imbecile, retard etc. are or at one point have been professional terms, which is why they became swear words. You create more pc terms, in time they'll become swear words as well.

About memes, I see them not so much as jokes, but simply a sign that you belong to some kind of subculture, like ghetto talk. Again, too much and you come off as a moron, but in good measure it allows you to identify with others on the internet as belonging to the same kind of group, which can be pleasant.

[Dark Pulse]

I mean, did you even watch Aldnoah?

Nope.

I could argue the same for autism being over that general cusp. I don't see why autistic is a no-no but retarded gets to stay. There are many other words that it can be replaced with like "stupid." It seems pretty biased to allow retarded to slide.

Indeed correct, but not many people here are complaining about retarded. People are, however, complaining about autistic.

[Mcjon01]

So essentially it's a visibility issue. People with intellectual disabilities aren't actually capable of posting on Internet forums, so they don't matter here.

[Christemo]

Just hecking use heck you hecking motherheckers

[Kelnish]

Nope.

Indeed correct, but not many people here are complaining about retarded. People are, however, complaining about autistic.

It's autism awareness month though.

[forumghost]

Indeed correct, but not many people here are complaining about retarded. People are, however, complaining about autistic.

Quite frankly those people need to suck it up. Speaking as someone who has a severely autistic brother (as in, so autistic he can't speak) I find the use of the term as an insult incredible offensive. As in "I want to punch the asshole that said that in the face" offensive.

But do I respond? No. I deal with it. Because I'm a grown man, not a child that needs to go crying to mummy and daddy the mods every time someone says something I don't like.

[RacingeR]

Quite frankly those people need to suck it up. Speaking as someone who has a severely autistic brother (as in, so autistic he can't speak) I find the use of the term as an insult incredible offensive. As in "I want to punch the asshole that said that in the face" offensive.

But do I respond? No. I deal with it. Because I'm a grown man, not a child that needs to go crying to mummy and daddy the mods every time someone says something I don't like.

Well nobody is against punishing the term if used as a serious insult. What is being argued is the more general usage of the word in non-flaming contexts.