Punishment and Tolerance

[SoupDiddly]

To keep it short and sweet, I've been playing PR since 2009, and I've come to the realisation somebody needs to sit down and daddy-up with the HOG admins. I do understand: HOG is very good for PR. It's the server holding out against the permanent darkness of night, and most of the rules enforced keep matches running smoothly and cohered, and without grief. That's damn near invaluable.

I'm not here to talk shit on HOG, nor am I here to call for the death of HOG, but I'm getting this sneaking suspicion that the admins need a small dose of tolerance injected straight into their jaded veins. They *do* have absolute power, and they do not wield that sword with grace.

I also know that it can be hard to place value on the cries of the damned, but I ask that y'all take a minute to read through some of the text in the IMGUR gallery down below, and judge for yourself the validity of my points.

Punishment and tolerance need to hold hands. When they don't, we get some fairly unfair and unhealthy systems out of it.

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The Sauce

I mean, good f'n god. Just read this one TEEKO's ban appeal

[jenson]

I know that admins, in most games, can get a bit power hungry and develop an habit of acting on impulse. Although, as an outsider, all those claims seem kinda BS, if you use certain words and only change 2 letters you are well aware of the word you are trying to write and the meaning behind certain words.
PR has a small yet a worldwide community so i understand being a bit more restrict than usual to assure that most people have a good experience, and this means, certain behaviours and expressions shouldn't be allowed. But these are my "two cents" on the subject

[SoupDiddly]

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Two things: the fact that it is a worldwide community actually means that there is a need for there to be MORE flexibility on words that aren't relevant to 90% of the world's population; and nobody can try to argue that context is not more important than the power of a single word. But neither of these are the point.

The point is that for a *lot of people*, these words are part of there regular vernacular, for good or for ill, and when you have rules like these which punish severely and indiscriminately, you have to ask yourself, 1: who is actually being protected here? 2: Does the punishment match the crime?

[Mats391]

This is not the place to discuss what can and cant be said. If you have feedback for HOG or any other server, please post it in their respective feedback thread.