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TedTheDog
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Theres been a marked increase in posts of a nature I've come not to expect from the DAoC community.
Using images of disabled people for your own amusement is not going to be tolerated.
Threats of violence are not going to be tolerated.
And whilst our Terms & Conditions (T&C's) permit a little bit of swearing, this doesnt mean all swearing in all contexts is acceptable either.
Our T&C's also state
Overall, the DAoC forums here are doing very well and you should all be proud of yourselves. You come across to an outsider like myself as a tight-nit & involved community that has higher than average standards as online communities go. I've been genuinely suprised and dissapointed to see some of the posts that I allude to.
Anyway, I'd like to say that I'll be backing the moderators up in their efforts and suspending/deleting offenders accounts, be they paying BarrysWorld subscribers or not. And please try and have a more realistic expectation of the moderators. Theres a lot of posts in these forums, and they are all unpaid volunteers and they cannot be expected to agonise for hours over every borderline post.
I'm not sure if this is correct, but if this sort of nonsense had occured on the now-dead official forums, it would be possible for GOA to delete the offenders Game accounts too.
Anyway, to the small minority, please stop and think, you're spoiling it for others and your making the whole community look bad, when in reality its actually better than many others.
Ted
BarrysWorld Community Bloke
Using images of disabled people for your own amusement is not going to be tolerated.
Threats of violence are not going to be tolerated.
And whilst our Terms & Conditions (T&C's) permit a little bit of swearing, this doesnt mean all swearing in all contexts is acceptable either.
Our T&C's also state
which isnt just a rule, its common decency. The "young & macho" amongst you who are saying to themselves "yeah, but I would say that stuff to people face to face" are only kidding yourselves.
Overall, the DAoC forums here are doing very well and you should all be proud of yourselves. You come across to an outsider like myself as a tight-nit & involved community that has higher than average standards as online communities go. I've been genuinely suprised and dissapointed to see some of the posts that I allude to.
Anyway, I'd like to say that I'll be backing the moderators up in their efforts and suspending/deleting offenders accounts, be they paying BarrysWorld subscribers or not. And please try and have a more realistic expectation of the moderators. Theres a lot of posts in these forums, and they are all unpaid volunteers and they cannot be expected to agonise for hours over every borderline post.
I'm not sure if this is correct, but if this sort of nonsense had occured on the now-dead official forums, it would be possible for GOA to delete the offenders Game accounts too.
Anyway, to the small minority, please stop and think, you're spoiling it for others and your making the whole community look bad, when in reality its actually better than many others.
Ted
BarrysWorld Community Bloke
, sort the chaff from the wheat . What people have to realise is that younger members of the community read these forums and also some older members of the community , myself included , do have children , that sometimes read over their parents shoulders . Lately I have been reading these forums in solitude due to the marked increase in offensive material often found here . Other than the minority , I find most of the members offer great advice and can be clever and witty without being offensive 
Same goes for us here, certainly the language and tone of some posts recently has seen a marked downturn.
