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[DarthHelmet86]

Hold you horses man, look how long ago this thread was actually active and see that nothing has happened to the review. You want to know why, cause the people with the power to change the review or rip it down all didn't do anything about it, we could have but we left it alone.

Also just because something is an opinion doesn't mean it won't, or can't offend someone. And if it does you have to expect someone to ask or demand that you change what you said (not the opinion just how you wrote it) if you can't deal with that or criticism of any kind then this isn't the place for you to be throwing up a review for us to use.

In other words before you start, as you put it, bitching about the censorsjip around here make sure we have censored something first.

[MrDeadly]

How did I bitch about censorship? I said that IF the review was changed it would raise the need to do something that showed people what low level of tolerance the site had. I didn't say such was the case now.

And I would have understood the need for a re-write perfectly well if I'd actually written something demeaning, cruel or expressed outrageous views against homosexuals or someone else. But there's nothing like that in there, and that's probably why the review was both accepted and has been up for nearly three years without any problems. Bazly and a couple of others managed to find something that "irked" them, and that's okay. They're entitled to their opinion, and criticize all they want, and that's why I didn't post anything in this thread before the talk about changing the review arose. That I felt the need to defend, because in this particular case, their opinions should not validate any editing. I'm glad to hear that it won't.

[DarthHelmet86]

If you were so desperate to defend your review why didn't you post in the thread when people where talking about changing the review...2 months ago almost. People are allowed to suggest that the review needs to be changed and are allowed to discuss if it should. Even if it doesn't seem offensive to you it doesn't mean it isn't to other people.

A simple "Hey guys I wrote the review and I don't see any thing offensive about it so I am not going to change it unless someone gives me a very good reason." post would have sufficed rather then threats of posting the review on other sites with Banned on AB on it.

If you read the thread you will see I was standing up for the review and saying it shouldn't be changed. Your choice of words about what you would do made it sound very much like you felt the tolerance around was low already. If you didn't mean it like that, thats fine ignore my quip about bitching.

[MrDeadly]

Sorry, I didn't know you had to post something within a certain time-frame in order for it to be valid. At first this thread didn't interest me much other then the fact that it was amazingly entertaining (and a bit jaw-dropping, but that's just me). But there was really no reason to speak out on anything. I don't have the time to hang around on the internet all day, so I didn't get to the latest comments until recently, but those gave me a reason to say something. However I didn't get around to write a reply until now.

On your suggestion about a simpler post, sure I could have done that, but I wanted to get a couple of points across. As for the "threat" thing, c'mon... All I said was that if the review got fiddled with for something like this, then people would be able to read it in full somewhere else, get to know the reason why it had been changed at its original location, and therefore see what was clearly not tolerated at that site. It would only have been the truth.

I've spent way too much of my weekend on this subject. But I've said all that I wanted to say, so I see no point in going on about it. I personally consider the matter closed.

[Eagle of Fire]

And the second comment I've noted here, is exactly the kind of problem I'm pointing out, and is very common in gaming communities. I think we're living in a time where it shouldn't necessarily be obvious that a guy likes girls.

I could not see this without replying to it.

I completely disagree. Homosexuals and lesbians (and/or whatever else!) represent such a small minority in any society that I really don't see why they should be given special treatments in texts written specifically for the masses.

What I think is that we already give way too much special treatment to very small minorities of our societies only because it is socially correct to do so. It really gets to my nerve too... Why should we bother using 25-30% of our resources for a group which represent 5-10% of the base group?

Of course those numbers are completely made up by me... But still, that's my general idea.

[Tracker]

Originally Posted by Eagle of Fire

I could not see this without replying to it.

I completely disagree. Homosexuals and lesbians (and/or whatever else!) represent such a small minority in any society that I really don't see why they should be given special treatments in texts written specifically for the masses.

What I think is that we already give way too much special treatment to very small minorities of our societies only because it is socially correct to do so. It really gets to my nerve too... Why should we bother using 25-30% of our resources for a group which represent 5-10% of the base group?

Of course those numbers are completely made up by me... But still, that's my general idea.

It really gets MY nerve too! Seconded. That's all I wanted to say.

[Lulu_Jane]

This is a stupid thread and I'm closing it for now.