Should G*y Be Banned in Game?

Gothix, a Dragon's Call(http://dc.gamedp.com) player, was absolutely pissed off by [GH] Haze, a player volunteer, due to the action of muting him in game. Furthermore, Gothix thinks Haze has a strong discrimination for the whole gay community. Gothix is very sensitive about this kind of problem in game. He decided to give the whole GH(Game Helper, player volunteers) team and Dragon's Call an official warning after he found out that he could not even type the word Gay in the world chat (The word Gay is in the in-game filter). He stated that even Blizzard had received a Gay Rights Warning in order to tell Dragon's Call official this was a serious problem. Also he reminded everyone that the Gay Pride Week 2010 was coming soon.

Necessary or unnecessary?

I believe that the word gay should not be filtered.

However, prejudical slurs having to do with homosexuality should be filtered.

Whatever. You dont have freedom of speech over the internet. It doesn't exist. Its up to the discretion of the host or service provider to allow or censor whatever they want. You're on "their property."

Definitely too many homophobics online. Ban GEYH as well

Whatever. You dont have freedom of speech over the internet. It doesn't exist. Its up to the discretion of the host or service provider to allow or censor whatever they want. You're on "their property."

XaosII

Gay is used as offensive more then it is to describe.

He couldn't be fine with just saying homo-sexual or what not?

I hate it when people have to be like that, so stupid.

whats wrong with being gay or saying gay it should not be banned in games

whats wrong with being gay or saying gay it should not be banned in games

T_REX305

Why should sexual talk been allow at a gaming website?

Edited to add:

I have problem with ****/p> (clas$) and I was talking about what character jobs.

As happy gilmore would say "gold jacket, green jacket, who gives a s@#!"

Yep.

Only if the term gay is being used in a derogatory sense. And is there another Xaos? Am I seeing things?

Most people won't use gay as what it is suppose to mean since it is consider an insult

Gothix, a Dragon's Call(http://dc.gamedp.com) player, was absolutely pissed off by [GH] Haze, a player volunteer, due to the action of muting him in game. Furthermore, Gothix thinks Haze has a strong discrimination for the whole gay community. Gothix is very sensitive about this kind of problem in game. He decided to give the whole GH(Game Helper, player volunteers) team and Dragon's Call an official warning after he found out that he could not even type the word Gay in the world chat (The word Gay is in the in-game filter). He stated that even Blizzard had received a Gay Rights Warning in order to tell Dragon's Call official this was a serious problem. Also he reminded everyone that the Gay Pride Week 2010 was coming soon.

Necessary or unnecessary?

yupeizuan

Wait, did you really just censor "gay"?

gaygaygaygaygaygaygaygaygaygay

I believe there are enough non-offensive synonyms for gay that if you really want to talk about it in a game chat you'll be able to do it just fine even if the exact word gay is not allowed. Given the unfortunate tendency of far too many gamers to use that word as an adjective when they want to describe something they dislike in a very negative way, I'm not surprised that online games ban the word from their chat channels. I'm also not surprised that someone would immediately jump to the conclusion that the word is banned as a part of a massive anti-homosexual discrimination conspiracy. There are over-reactors in every group, from ethnic minorities to women to mormons to homosexuals. And in every single one of those groups, there's a lot of energy wasted on chasing paper tigers like this, when there is far more damaging discrimination out there that they should be focusing the efforts on.ChiliDragon

Could no have said it better.

Wait, did you really just censor "gay"?runekey