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Inappropriate Conduct has no place in Euro; Can we not tell new members this?
Topic Started: Sep 2 2014, 06:01 AM (841 Views)
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A few years ago now, HEM wrote an article discussing how NationStates had changed and in particular how the separation between player and person had eroded. Essentially meaning that players were less and less playing a character and increasingly playing themselves. This was leading a different sort of politics and a different sort of game. Especially one that older players who still played as separated characters were struggling with.

At this time, this trend of the persona of a character being the character itself rather than a sort of fabrication has become ever and ever more prevalent. While there are of course pros and cons to this, the greatest challenge is that the politics can become more heated, more personal and more destructive.

Of particular concern to me, is the message we are sending to newer members with our behaviour. Are messages like the following:

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[10:23:17 PM] modernsin: Haley I hope you're a lesbian, because you're marrying a human cunt.


What we wish to be sending to people new to Europeia? Personally, I find how seriously people are taking make-belief marriages in NationStates to be off-putting as well as dangerous. This is a game after all and with a roleplay aspect that at its lightest has no feelings at all and is simply political or for fun, people need to be careful. With such a wide spectrum of views and beliefs with regards to marriages, people can get hurt and take things far too seriously for their own good. That is something no one wants to see.

I simply think as a whole we should endeavour not to make things personal and to not cross boundaries that were never meant to be crossed with regards to personal conduct.
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That quote. Wow.
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I couldn't agree more Rach.
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:clap: Good message, and tasteful use of MS quote. :wink:
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It's interesting that you point this out, and I agree. It's why I'm not friends with NSers on Facebook, people don't have my phone number, etc. I treat NS and RL as nearly completely separate, but it's difficult to do so when others increasingly do not.
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I loled really hard.
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To be blunt, that is a fucked up thing to say to someone.
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Sep 2 2014, 06:09 AM
It's interesting that you point this out, and I agree. It's why I'm not friends with NSers on Facebook, people don't have my phone number, etc. I treat NS and RL as nearly completely separate, but it's difficult to do so when others increasingly do not.
In a sense, NationStates becomes more like social media than a game. I don't think I'm completely separate, but I think I'm a bit more in the middle of the range.
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Sep 2 2014, 06:11 AM
To be blunt, that is a fucked up thing to say to someone.
I agree, but it's not exactly out of character for MS, and I think it's being interpreted more harshly than it was intended. Nonetheless, inappropriate.
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So... not to miss the point entirely - but who is Haley marrying? :O
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Sep 2 2014, 09:10 AM
So... not to miss the point entirely - but who is Haley marrying? :O
A man whos been single for 10 days after a 5 month marriage...
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Reminds me of when you divorced Charlotte...
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Sep 2 2014, 09:50 AM
Reminds me of when you divorced Charlotte...
I forgot about that. Didn't she marry Svunbrink immediately after the divorce?
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