- Lol, Well if sparta got banned for the link then having a website as your name is much worse right? lol...
Anyways yeah I agree some alliance names can become offensive and so forth and need to be banned or at least told "Hey this is in some circles an offensive message so from hence forth your name will need to be changed and wont appear as it is now again. Thank you and we hope you understand since this is a grepolis community building forum/site/ect. ect...."
As for the link being posted about the sparta thing it probably shouldnt have been posted in the first place since I am sure somewhere in the rules it stats you cannot advertise outside sites/forums.
The point is,
They arent banning the name because its so offensive - because frankly its not that offensive and I do have relatives with mental health issues, but I am an adult who realises that this is in no way meant with malice or hatred like a team called "The KKK" would definitely be.
They have said they banned it because it advertised an outside forum, but thats nonsense, you just remove the hotlinks from peoples sigs if its an issue and warn them not to do it. Although actually there are the multiple dual standards there as well.
- There are many scripts that are legal to use, advertised in a part of the forums hosted on outside sites
- Grepostats is widely recognised in the forums
- Skype is discussed in the forums which can have huge chatrooms of grepogoers and I have seen many times "Epsilon Chat on skype with a link posted by people and have met many moderators online in Skype using them, so thats never been a problem
- The victim finder has tons of adverts for other games but is widely discussed with its links
There is even a whole section of the forum for graphical productions with other products and software that is discussed at great length, so this is hardly a big deal if some kids wanna start they're own little grepogroup, heaven forbid they might be encouraged to seek a career in the gaming business and maybe help Innogames develop the next killer online experience.
J.
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I'm gonna have to join the other side on one issue. And before you guys start screaming "what this is madness" I must explain. We were obviously spam advertising a forum that we named Spa rtard forums. Adam had a perfectly good reason to ban the word, we were using it in our advertisements. It was in the url. Since he removed the word, he wouldn't have to go around giving out infractions for advertisement.
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As for a solution to the problem... Arguing is never going to solve anything. If you've ever looked at American politics you can easily see that. So I'll come to a midpoint. Adam, how about we change the domain name of our forums to something like Spartacular forums and you can ban "Spartacular" instead so that we can actually talk about our alliance without being censored.
Interesting post Jarp,
Thanks for clarifying from your side.
But there shouldnt be a need to ban a word at all.
We have rules that are enforced about links and such, so just enforce those rules and keep words out of the equation.
Although as I said earlier, if you want to make a forum about your favourite online game then all power to you, Inno should be thanking you for getting the word out and trying to give a place for people to chat that perhaps doesnt suffer the same modding restrictions as here.
Once again i can see a benefit to Grepolis if you have the cuddly forum for 90% of users and the other 10% of current users plus perhaps the 25% of users who have left this one because they feel so oppressed and restricted.
Everyone wins.
Edited to add - I have to laugh when I get de-repped by Pythagorus, a mod, because i need to get over myself for starting a discussion to look awesome. I own my own business, I race cars and am a Judge for drift events around europe, I had a Porsche GT3 by the time I was 33 and I earn over 100grand a year - Im already awesome pal, I dont need an internet wang off to get high !!
There is such a thing as principle, and this is one time I think a position of authority has been abused.
J.
Thanks Chrss - couldnt compute !! lol