Hey everyone,
Today I came to know of two incidents that resulted in 2 players having their accounts banned.
One case I was particularly impressed about was a player who created an account with the name 'GAYTEAM'. This player was like any other player, and he played with no problems for a time, even learning to play some shoppa, which requires time as we all know.
This player told me that one day he entered a room where one of the devs was present. At that moment the dev banned GAYTEAM, quoting reasons of 'illegal name' or something like that. What surprised me even more is that Shepluva woud have also given the OK for this ban. This ban was [b]permanent[/b].
I would like to think the devs simply made a judgment error and thought this player was a troll of some sorts. I hope you didn't know he was just a regular player who happened to be gay, and named his team accordingly. I hope this is not the case, because otherwise it would mean at hedgewars we are OK with having 'killers', 'assassins', etc, but we don't stand 'gay'.... This would be tremendously discriminatory, and very strange to be found on an open-source community like Hedgewars.
This brings me to the second case. The player Barcelona1973 was banned for 3 days for cursing at another player in the lobby. I won't contest this. I in fact agree with a no-tolerance policy for verbal insult at the lobby. What I would like to remark is that this player was cursing at another player doing swastikas and nazi remarks on lobby and rooms. I wonder, was there anything done about this other player? I hope the same standards apply to violents and racially discriminatory behavior.
I just want to put this out there, to get a clarification of the misunderstanding, or start a necessary discussion if there is none.
Cheers
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