Tears. I'm literally shaking. Close World of Warcraft before anyone else gets hurt. This is very serious.https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mb7b9q/world-of-warcraft-has-a-rape-problem …
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To be clear - I am laughing at Vice. Rape is obviously a very serious problem that isn't funny. Articles like this don't help anyone.
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Fuckery like this: creates sides where there shouldn't be, trivialities rape, creates an undue environment of fear... should I go on?
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Replying to @BellularGaming
ofc it's not rape - it's online - but the point still stands. i had to leave rust servers because of shit like this but over mics.
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Exactly, so let's not call it rape. Sexual harassment is an accurate term. Especially on Rust with mic.
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I know but you have a platform of influence and your followers are using it to make triggered jokes re: this instead https://twitter.com/shackle_ton/status/912849982801141760 …
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Replying to @NinjaPotts @BellularGaming
instead of opening up a dialogue of 'oh fuck yeah this does happen in games' it's focusing on the article's tone and it's just a bit ehhh
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What's got people is that the article is poorly researched and not representative of the game. It is bad journalism that's designed to...
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...fit a narrative first, rather than report the facts. Conversations are harder to have when bad actors bend the truth for shock value.
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we'll have to agree to disagree. it's definitely a problem (sexual harassment as you said). just happy it's being written about.
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I suppose it's more that articles like this do the cause far more harm than good. It's almost certainly a net loss.
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Replying to @BellularGaming
a net loss for who? :/ at the minute the only person losing here is the person who wrote the article
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it's never about addressing the toxicity, it's always about how it's been addressed wrong. and then no-one wants to address it.
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