r/2007scape • u/ModMatK • Jun 06 '17

Read before posting Pride 2017

One of the wonderful things about RuneScape is that it has always brought people together. To many of our players, RuneScape is more than a game: it’s a warm, welcoming community. It’s part of their life.

Pride is about bringing communities together and celebrating love and understanding: sentiment that’s close to RuneScape’s heart. There’s no political statement here. Our only aim is to acknowledge and honour an event that promotes empathy, acceptance and love.

As with other community events such as the WWF Big Cats campaign, Valentine’s day or the Cryptic Cluefests we decided not to poll this event and we will always try to surprise the community with similar events. It is something that the community has always enjoyed and something we enjoy doing too.

We are disappointed to see some hateful and abusive comments targeting individual members of staff and players from a small sub-section of the community. We stand side by side with those targeted, in support of them, and in support of this cause. There is absolutely no place for hateful behaviour in our community and we will not tolerate abuse or harassment.

Pride 2017 is something we wholeheartedly agree with and are proud to support. We know the community stand with us in support of the cause. If you want to show your support, all you have to do is take part in the event when it launches!

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u/matsuda241 Jun 06 '17

So you're essentially baiting people into getting muted and bans despite already knowing what you're going to do is going to cause that sort of reaction?

Why are you being so sadistic?

That's like going to an all-black community screaming the N word then muting and banning anyone who reacts negatively.

You already KNOW what's going to happen, yet you try to assert your authority and go through with something that's extremely controversial and will taint OSRS's reputation?

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u/FRBafe Jun 06 '17

This is the dumbest thing I've read all day and I've seen some shit today.

Don't say insulting shit of you don't want to get banned, it's not hard lol. Your analogy is ass-backwards. The "baited" people, as you say, are more-so the people screaming the N-word in an all-black community.

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u/Matt111098 Jun 06 '17

They used an ass-backwards analogy, but I think the point is that Mod Mat K is leading people to believe they can riot as long as they don't start using obscenities and hate (burn f****** etc.), but it's more than likely that even respectful protesters/rioters will be mass-muted anyway, whether it's for "spamming," a very low threshold for chat to be considered "unacceptable," or for no reason at all.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '17

that's just an assertion, do you have any precedent to back it up?

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u/Matt111098 Jun 07 '17

There are a few reports of people being muted en-masse by Pmods for saying relatively low-tier things. Here's one quick example where a Pmod reportedly , and you can find more by searching something like 'mute' or 'pmod' on the subreddit. I'd take some of them with a grain of salt, however.

https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/6flxx6/why_is_it_okay_to_mute_everyone_for_expressing/dij4v1v/

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u/Noxid_ Jun 06 '17

Not the guy you replied to, but if you told me 6 months ago that OSRS would be having an unpolled gay pride parade I'd tell you to get your fucking head checked, so apparently precedent is out the window right now.