IRC: Come On Guys!

[putrid_plum]

I know for years #EFU has been a place to joke with your friends and keep in touch with other players.  Yet it gets out of hand there alot.  People are saying really crazy things lately and it not only might turn off new players but old players too.  Often I see black jokes, Pope jokes, jokes about women, and alot of cussing.  Sure that might be funny to you but I bet it's not so funny to everyone else.

Howland even made a post about it but it seems people would rather just make a big joke about keeping #EFU clean.  Kids play here too you know.  Seriously guys, have a bit of respect for others.

[TheImpossibleDream]

Howland already made a post about it. No need for this one.

[putrid_plum]

It was happening today and last night so maybe it is needed?

[Drakill Tannan]

Maybe that discussion about illithd tentacle pron was uncalled for...

[Halfbrood]

This post makes it sound like we are all religion bashing, foul mouthed misogynistic racists. This is not so.

Sure, sometimes things get a little out of hand, but this is the internet after all.

[Nufferz]

[Paha]

After I came back to efu:a from a little break that lasted over the ending of underdark edition, I have not really wanted to look at the irc channel for anything else but sendings. That's how much 'sometimes' I see things getting out of hand.

At times I throw few words in, but mostly I just roll my eyes and throw irc on the background, checking for sendings alone. There's bloody lot to improve.

[Howlando]

I can't say I really pay attention to the channel most of the time. But send me logs and I will cheerfully ban anyone who doesn't respect my wishes about keeping #efu as a place I don't need to be ashamed to be associated with.

[Coldburn]

Let me be the one to voice my opinion then. For the record, I will not respond to any argument this might trigger. This is simply my opinion and nothing's gonna change that. Again, that doesn't mean I won't respect the wishes if the DM team insists.

This is the internet. If pornography, racism, religion-bashing and whatnot, even combined together, haven't reached our 7 year old kids yet who get spammed in their Inbox every day, something's wrong. What I see here is a channel in which people come to relax. We all relax in different ways. Yes, I like to ask Requiem in my white suburban wanna-be ghetto slang what it takes to be black. Because really, black folks are cool. I see people hating on the Christian Church, and I am sitting behind my monitor with a wide grin on my face. That, folks, is my relaxation and for certainly-not-a-minority of folks in IRC, for them as well. That doesn't mean we all spew out tons of crap every second. That doesn't mean we're racist, incestious pedophiles who want to watch the world burn. That means we don't take it all seriously. Because for me, personally, that is exactly what is wrong with this world. People taking everyting seriously. This is my escape hatch. This is where I come to chill.

So to summarize it all:

It's the internet. Haters gonna hate.

[Canzah]

This.

Because for me, personally, that is exactly what is wrong with this world. People taking everyting seriously. This is my escape hatch. This is where I come to chill.

Though of course there's common sense for stepping over the line. No one in IRC is actively trying to bully/make someone feel bad, or at least that's how it should be.

Gators gonna gait.

[DeputyCool]

Coldburn, everything you've said is 100% accurate. But it's also limited to you. If you want to form a #Coldburn, and invite as many people as you like, we are certainly not going to stop you. But the fact remains that as the DM Staff of Escaped From The Underdark: Archipelago, we have a specific duty to the Server that can manifest itself as a form of PR Control. #EFU -is- an extension of EFU:A, and therefor it is a public face for the server.

It is our desire to keep this face as clean as possible. Whether or not it is your escape hatch is irrelevent in maintaining the rules that the Admin Team sets forth for it's use. Registering a channel is not at all difficult, and I am more than willing to show anyone who does not know how, how to do it. But, the old "Our House, Our Rules" addage sort of applies here: #EFU is under the same jurisdiction as EFU the Server, and the EFU DM Team Rules for IRC Use ask that #EFU please be kept clean. This will be more strictly enforced, I suspect, given the number of complaints we've begun to recieve.

This doesn't mean you can't curse, or tell jokes, even off color ones. What it does mean is that we do not want #EFU to be a place that people feel they can't be in without being subject to something offensive. Really, it's pretty much common sense. Don't sit around calling everyone a faggot, or insulting other people for any reason, at all. Keep the cursing to a minimum, and try not to troll too intensely. Believe it or not, new players do enter into IRC looking to speak to the admins.

[Disco]

I agree. IRC has defenatly changed over the years. the cursing and trolling has gotten worse.

[xxWhisperingWindsxx]

Bear in mind ... me personally, I'm very hard to offend.  I can take most things in stride, and laugh probably even when I shouldn't.

BUT ... if you think that the hijinks in IRC doesn't cause issues:

I'm leaving permanently.  The most recent discussion on IRC has convinced me that I don't have a place here, as it seems that I don't fit the mold.  Best of luck to everyone.

That pretty much says it all.

:(

[Snoteye]

I'm around more than Howland and a much faster banner.

[UrkoNeedsAStiffDrink]

Whilst this is the internet and such taboo topics will constantly rise, I suggest just cracking down on the trolls. Hells, if we're having a mature discussion over our favourite ex-man of the cloth turned scat porn director, we shouldn't be forced to stop talking over it.

As long as we're all being mature and serious enough about it that is.