Agree and Disagree (Score 1)

I played WoW for about a year. I must agree it is sad if you're getting called names and such 60 times an hour. You have to remember, as has been said several times I see, there are a LOT of early teens playing. Now, I did notice that going from a PVP to a Non-PVP server, the IQ seemed to increase dramatically. Which makes sense to me. Younger kids seem to forget how to act towards people when they're able to pretty much whipe out whole zones of the other faction, then run around trying to dual everyone in their own once the zone is clear of the opposition. The epenis/mighty pixel disease spreads quickly when world pvp gets hot for long periods of time, too.


As far as freedom of speech goes -- I had a guild for many months where I made it clear that we allow profanity in guild. We had rules and guidelines that we adhered to that kept guild chat fun and weeded out people who joined just to cuss nonstop. It turned into a well known starters guild, and a safe harbor for people's alts to guarantee their alt building would be fun rather than OMG PVP/RAIDS ALL DAY ALL DAY ALL DAY. Some GMs knew about it and thought it was a good idea seeing how it was governed and how everyone was kindly informed before they ever got into the guild. (a GM had joined it on an alt I guess, especially after hearing there was profanity allowed just because they were curious to see how it worked without people ever complaining. He had some great dirty jokes.) I'm all for IQ tests for joining guilds ;)

One addition I would like is an auto-ignore feature for non-guildies that blocks people who type u, r, y, etc. -grin-