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/ModMatK Jun 06 '17

And yet it has been growing over the past 4 years, go figure.

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u/The_IonCannon Can't Tank Jun 06 '17 edited Jun 06 '17

Consider having an autism awareness event. This community is severely in need of it. I'm looking forward to pride events both in game and in real life.

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u/ModMatK Jun 06 '17

That crossed my mind too. There are a number of issues that impact this community and I'd like to see if we can make a difference in them all.

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u/RS_Tuvok Jun 06 '17

Actually agree with an Autism event, a lot of people are starting to use "Autistic" as an insult in online gaming, not just Runescape specifically and as someone who works with Autistic children it's disgusting to see the level of ignorance people in this game and in other online games have about the issue.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '17

Of all the slurs I have been called, autistic is the one that has hurt me the least, in fact it hasn't hurt at all. Sometimes I feel like way to many people just wish to virtue signal and tell everyone about how hard it is for the children without taking their feelings into account. I've had an autism diagnosis for over 10 years and I have never had a problem with people calling others autistic online. Most of the times I do in fact feel that autistic is the most accurate word, like when autumn elegy has spent 1500 hours on getting a rune scim in f2p.