Language in the MA

[SELECTOR]

ive offten wondered if the monitor speaks english... ive been muted for saying stuff which is not bad language in UK .. i never use bad language in real life so i would not use it in game when minors may be playing...

ive seen some real foul mouth players get around it by placing symbols around words   ##swear##

i truly belive in freedom of speach, but bad language is not welcomed as you can surly make a point without it..

dont punnish by muting , make c47 the only option for 30 mins

[Shane]

Originally posted by WldThing
The sad thing is that if a person gets muted for 60 minutes, all they have to do is relogg and they can keep talking once again...This IMO should be changed.

that's in the DA, where the filter is on, not done by an actual person. and an hr is pretty execssive.  MA mutes last 10 mins.

I think TA is an hr, i dunno.


funny he got muted for whoopeeed, but we have a suqad called the damned.

i guess if he had said  damned nik, it might've been ok, especially if it was a damned in a niki?

gotta love the inconsistencies, almost as much as it usually being *who* you know rather than *what* you say that gets one muted.

moot has a pretty valid point, imho.

[Widewing]

Originally posted by Shane
that's in the DA, where the filter is on, not done by an actual person. and an hr is pretty execssive.  MA mutes last 10 mins.

I think TA is an hr, i dunno.


funny he got muted for whoopeeed, but we have a suqad called the damned.

i guess if he had said  damned nik, it might've been ok, especially if it was a damned in a niki?

gotta love the inconsistencies, almost as much as it usually being *who* you know rather than *what* you say that gets one muted.

moot has a pretty valid point, imho.

Not long ago I was having a conversation with mrdick. I simply referred to him as Dick in the text, and was promptly muted....

You would think that the context of a conversation would have some bearing..... Obviously not.

"Stupid is as stupid does." - Gump

My regards,

Widewing

[Shane]

Originally posted by Widewing
Not long ago I was having a conversation with mrdick. I simply referred to him as Dick in the text, and was promptly muted....
You would think that the context of a conversation would have some bearing..... Obviously not.
"Stupid is as stupid does." - Gump
My regards, Widewing

not to mention it's a *name*.  lol, gawd.  makes you wonder about "peter," tho' or johnson.... willie?

[Saw at Work]

I was once prompted that if I ever sang again in the tower radio before a takeoff during a major event... I'd be booted. Then again, this might have to do with my bad singing

I strongly suspect Superfly

[Curval]

The situations involving names, or silly interpretaions by the moderator are understandably frustrating.

Tronski, however,  started this thread by complaining that he was muted for say "whoopee" for which he was properly muted IMHO.  

I swear ALOT when online...don't get me wrong.  I just don't do it on channel 1.  MOST of my swearing is directed at myself for being stupid.

[eagl]

If you fly in my H2H arena, I guarantee you won't get squelched for bad language

[Yeager]

I hate morons and hugahunks!

KILL THEM BASTARDZ!!!!!

ArrRGHHHH!

[Catching Spies]

Regardless if you believe in God or not I personally do not like to read or hear that word.

[Samiam]

A whoopeeed Niki hit me from 800+

This offends me.

Now, if you'd said:

A whoopeeed George (or Shiden Kai) hit me from 800+

we wouldn't have so much of a problem.


Of course we could have fewer colorful outbursts. I hardley look at the text buffers - they are easy to ignore. But ranting on the area vox channel is unecessary. If you have to spew filth to make you feel better about your unjust death, do it to your dog with your mic off. He certainly cares more than the rest of us.

[Shiva]

Originally posted by fffreeze220
Foreign language doesnt help not getting mutet

Depends on how foreign the language is; there are enough cognates from German to English to allow an English speaker to get a fair idea of whether a German term is a vulgarity -- 'arschloch', for example. Languages that are less common, or which are linguistically further from English, would be harder for an English speaker to catch. For example, calling someone  a 'zalupu konskaya' or telling them 'tebya ne ebut, ti ne podmakhivay', or describing them as 'baltattsya kak govno v prorubi' would be much less likely to be caught, even though they're all vulgarities.

And if you go further afield, there are a number of science fiction and fantasy authors that have put enough work into creating languages for their worlds that they have created vulgarities in them, which would be unintelligible to someone else unless they'd read the books. For example, calling someone a 'shendi-fleckin, shidoni-be-shayed lorsh' won't be understood by someone who hasn't read Jacqueline Lichtenberg's Sime/Gen stories. Other fictional languages would be more recognizable; for example, calling someone a 'petaQ' or 'k'pekt' or exclaiming 'Qu'vatlh!' or 'QI'yaH!' would be recognizable to someone familiar with Star Trek as being Klingon vulgarities.

So if you want to be vulgar on the radio, you just need to be more inventive about it.

[Furious]

I can get muted by the auto-mute just for typing in my squads name.

Now that is just frikkin cool.  I do it to myself when I am bored.


F.

[loser]

tronski i see what you are saying, but still.

You were muted for a good reason (not that what you said would personally offend me.)

The fact that others were also typing out innappropriate things (also things that wouldnt bother me,) and weren't caught has nothing to do with your getting muted.

It is like getting a ticket for running a red light then saying to the cop "Yeah well, the guy in front of me ran the red light too!"  It's just not a valid ecxuse.

I also feel that the names of the moderators should not be known.  Incidents like this would turn into hundred plus posts on this BBS that would consist of whines and personal attacks.

What i do find weird though, is that some seem to get away with alot of profanity and such without getting muted.  Eg. I will see a guy type "shit, bastard, etc..." on the radio (particularily channel 2,) so i will try to type out the same word and I will get muted for ten minutes.  I type the word in question just to "test" the system and see if i will get muted for the same thing another person did not get muted for.

[Steve]

I got muted last nite(rightfully so) for getttin in a pissing match w/ Rude.  Immediately after getting muted,  I got  a popup message that said," You just don't get it, do you?"  This leads me to believe that one  of those 13th TAS losers has mute capabilities. I hope it's not Rude... I really dislike this fellow.

[Turbot]

Originally posted by loser
What i do find weird though, is that some seem to get away with alot of profanity and such without getting muted.  Eg. I will see a guy type "shit, bastard, etc..." on the radio (particularily channel 2,) so i will try to type out the same word and I will get muted for ten minutes.  I type the word in question just to "test" the system and see if i will get muted for the same thing another person did not get muted for.

Everyone is equal, but some people are more equal than others.