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I'm not going to read through the replies to see what's been said and what hasn't, as I just want to reply to this with everything I want to say.
1.What does word mean?
The word Gay it self is not a swear, it means two things
a. To be happy
Example: "I'm having a gay ol time" said the old man
b. of, relating to, or exhibiting desire or behavior directed toward a person or persons of one's own gender
Example: "I don't date girls because I'm gay" said the boy
You're going by the official definitions.
On the internet, words can gain another meaning overtime, depending on how it's used. "gay" for instance, is used as an insult nowadays.
Now I don't belive ethier of those defenisions are really all that bad what makes them bad is the way people use them and truly the barrier isn't stoping anyone from saying gay because people will just say gey.
That's what happens when you pick 2 good definitions, and if these were the only definitions, there is no way to use them badly.
The people it is stop are people who are not using it to insult someone, those people who just are using it in a sentence like they do in there every day life are not gonna pull the risk of saying a muted word even if they're just saying a normal scentence.
What are you even trying to say here? I'm having trouble decoding the lack of punctuation...
The people that want to use it, can easily use different words to express it. If people insulted each other with different words that mean "gay", they're able to be reported & muted.
not to mention CubeCraft also allows the word straight? To me this doesn't make much scene because the word straight (In the sexuality manner) is the same word as gay just dating people of a different gender
When has "straight" ever been used as an insult? Never, really. There's no valid reason to block it.
and straight also has a meaning that's used
extremely often in-game.
And I know that straight can also mean something not wavyt or a straight line but if that's truly the reason why gay also deservers to be allowed because gay (as said above) also means to be happy.
(as said above) Straight is never used as an insult, unlike the word "gay".
I'm not gonna sugar coat this easily people WILL use gay as a insult more often if the word is unmuted, so the question is what do we do about it? Well referring to what I previously said people already just say gey so we do what we do to those people, report them. It's not that hard to report people espically if you're using screenshots, all you have to do is click this link
https://www.cubecraft.net/threads/how-to-use-the-new-report-system.175577/ , Put it under bulling, put in the screenshots, and say what they did that's how easy it is! No joke!
(Not to sound mean, but could you please use spell-check? and also use a bit more punctuation? that'd make it easier to read & understand)
Anyways, why would we allow something that's almost always used as an insult, just for the minuscule amount of cases where it's used normally?
It'll just create more unnecessary reporting, more unnecessary appeals claiming that it "wasn't on the filter, so it's not swearing or bullying".
It's just not a good idea, because it'll just cause lots of unnecessary arguing & unnecessary players offending others.
So finally what will this do for cubecraft?
Cause lots of people insulting each other with "gay".
Cause homophobic people to freak out and possibly even send death threats.
Cause religious people to start arguing. Arguing about religion is a bad idea, since "Your religion is the right religion, don't worry about what others believe)
Cause an immense amount of people to create reports, which costs time that could've been used for hacker reports or team reports.
The list goes on!
What I have thought up is this will allow people to be more exspresive on CubeCraft and will help people be more exspresive online and in real life and isn't that what CubeCraft wants? to make people happy?
You're missing the whole: People almost never talk about their sexuality online, let alone on Cube.
People almost always use it as an insult. Why would we add a word that's almost always used negatively? It'll just cause hate and negativity in the community. Not happiness.
Q.Why would people need to say gay?
A.Maybe people are saying they had a
Gay day or they could be telling friends
about their life and that'd be something
they're proud of and want to share.
Nobody uses "gay" for happy online. Why bother, when you can just say "happy" and not cause arguments?
And when people declare their sexuality, they can just say "I am attracted to x" or something along the lines of that. If people want to use THIS WORD specifically, they'll just have to deal with it or mask it. I doubt they'll get muted for it if it's in the right context.
A. This is 100% me being serious and it's
very hard but if they're in a lobby and
some ones talking about it they just have
to leave, Leave the lobby or go into a game
and not start a fight.
You're asking a lot from the average player.
Have you ever seen how some religious people react to someone claiming that they're gay? Not everyone will simply "leave", and it'll cause a storm of negative comments, which can even lead to religious people arguing with other religious people.
Not gonna happen.
We get it! You want to make it a better place! But you can't expect us to have it removed in hopes of people using the word with it's normal meaning.
You never see someone telling another that they're gay, you never see someone saying "gay" with its "happy" meaning.
The word "gay" itself is extremely controversial on the internet, considering the average player doesn't have a thick enough skin to deal with it. Let's not forget about homophobic people & religious people that hate the gays. It's just asking to have the chat swarmed with insults & death threats against homosexuals.
The worst part is: We can't tell the religious ones that they're wrong, since it's apart of their belief. We can't say that their belief is incorrect, as that's a "taboo".