TOPIC: Akemi

This is so shitty to say my old friend Para I used to enjoy playing with back in the day has turned into such an unfair dismissive character. :c Enjoy the circlejerk I guess. #RememberWhereYouCameFrom

Smoll Spock wrote: Isn't he the exact opposite for considering the cultural differences across the world? People are offended by it so he (as a CM should) defends them.

We have a very good potential CM candidate here

Raeker wrote:
like i said the other day raeker. No matter what i do ill get hate for it .

Anyways. We respect all cultures here and we do have american servers on zarp.

SSRP3 is a American server the people that play on that server browse our forums regularly and they took offense to your name.
Becuase in their culture its really offensive.

That is why we decided you cannot have this name.

ParaMontana wrote: To be honest I never thought of it in that way, I guess I have to agree with Para on this one it makes sense.

You will not be changing your name back, regardless of if you consider something offensive if people here take an issue with it you should have the decency to respect the values and feelings of other people here when they express discontent with your actions on our servers. If you have an issue reaching a mutually beneficial conclusion with someone else you may approach any staff member for a final decision or assistance in resolving the situation but simply responding with no care for others isn't acceptable at all. I do not care what your name may be, if a bunch of people find it disrespectful it's usually just courtesy to change your name and I would like to inform you than there will be consequences if you try to undermind the decision and standard we are setting in regards to this situation. So please consider other users around here and do not just go around causing problems.

After having discussed the matter with Sora and Morgan I completely understand where they're coming from. Seemingly it is a legitimately offensive word where they come from and it has actually been going on for weeks now. According to Sora users keep coming to him asking why their name was allowed.

It made me realize exactly why they took such offense to the word and why they came to that particular conclusion, which is why I fully support that choice at this point.

Then what you say is his roleplaying name is not offensive, you're taking it out of context, try talking to the player yourself and you'll understand he's not trying to be racist.

Smoll Spock wrote: That's like saying "I'm allowed to say the N-word because I'm black"

Tyler Durden wrote:
What about my roleplaying experience which is also being ruined here? It's like me getting my friends to report you and say soldiers kill people I find that offensive and your names endorsing something offensive. Do you not think my name was clearly innocent, the player took it out of context and should of asked what spook in my name was refering to before assuming.

I am going to still use spook in context of something scary or a ghost regardless of the decision that surfaced from the dictating American party - call me a racist or Hitler.

This whole ordeal was stupid to begin with, any sane person can see that.

Raeker wrote: There you go you just took something out of context as well.

Studio Banter wrote: You deserve a invite to Born In Blood.

The word Spook itself is not racist until you use it in offensive way. For example the n word only has one meaning which is bad. Spook has one innocent and one bad meaning, Spook isn't racist until it's used in the intentionally bad way.

I don't know why this is still going on. It has been ruled by the CM team to be disrespectful. Everyone should have the common decency to respect other peoples views, and be tolerant of this decision. Please stop and respect other people based on this decision, we have many different cultures and should respect all.

I believe Captin's post is a nice way to lock this thread. This is done and over with.