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I am NOT reading all of this holy shit. Someone can TLDR me if they care to. Regardless no we are not adding a rule to prevent sensitive/controversial topics from being discussed. You can mute people who dont talk about things you don't like, or you can report someone if you think they are actually breaking a rule (e.g. calling trans people slurs, being hella racist, someone saying some outta pocket shit.) Aside from that we do want to try to respect everyones beliefs or opinions and let them rant about them - it only becomes an issue when it becomes heated/actually hateful or if it is causing spam in the chat. At that point we try to direct people to DMs to continue.

From my point of view, people on this server should be able to talk about whatever they want as long as long as its not harmful aka things that fall under PTox guidelines. I don't understand why you think religious or current world topics would fall under those guidelines. People have the right to express their opinions and take whatever side they want as long as they are being respectful. If people don't like the discussions being help then they can mute. Also the idea that this is bringing down server population I think is false. The more rules and restrictions you have on what people can talk about means either more people getting banned or more people losing interest in what rp scenarios they can interact with. Topics like this catch some people attention, and some people play on this server to chill and talk. With the holy larp situation, he is an active player and people go in there and talk and try to change his mind. Nothing harmful about that. You also have people building mosques so its not just Christianity thats being shown. If people wanted to make a gay safe space with pride flags and stuff, they definitely could they just don't. Religion is just more talked about doesn't mean that on the flip side the other is denounced. You are grasping at things such as "we are losing half our player base". I don't think we are losing half of our players because of discussed topics (other than people who go to these conversations and mrdm them). If anything people find a niche in the community that they enjoy, and that's what they stick to. Overall, if we were to limit the speak of religion, why not stop people from saying the n word and remove furry models cause it makes them uncomfortable. Ill go back to what i said earlier. If you don't like it, mute em, stay away, or just stop playing. Otherwise, they can just sit in a base and farm ents all day, no reason to interact with anyone else, just be by yourself in a building.

If the suggestion is to add more rules on what people can talk about, the answer will still be no

@Mr. Sir Zapsworth Fucking beautiful that shit brought a tear to my eye. I nominate you for a grammy........ Emmy? Whatever the fuck it is @Blue. GET THIS MAN HIS TROPHY GODDAMMIT

my confirmation bias tells me that gay people are smelly and stinky yucky!

also how long till this guy realizes there's a suggestions channel

so gmod doesnt have a content rating but its generally considered 16+ on IMDB mostly due to its content you can install to the game

so i already discussed the whole "its the parents fault" arguement here

There is no rule stating we can’t have political discussions, just as long as they remain civil This would be the parents responsibility to allow their children to play games like this btw. Political debates are not inherently wrong, also the offensive topics you listed, half of them are not allowed by default. Not enforceable in a way you think it is. We can’t age verify people w ID’s, so if a player gets reported for “ sounding underage “ we have to investigate and ask them how old they are and only trust their honesty, it’s not our fault if a 10 year old lies and says they’re 13. Religion is not a 18+ thing? I grew up in the Bible Belt of America and I still hold my Christian values today, but then even it’s still up to the parents to monitor the child’s activity online.

i understand where you coming from, but just because its funny doesnt mean its not hurting the community and driving players away. the owner and moderators make changes to the rules all the time, modifying them to keep the in game chat about the game and not letting it derail into political arguments is just simple moderations, not censorship. and if we just let everyone say whatever they want in chat then we might as well as remove chat restrictions as a whole, other games ban spamming, disruptive behavior, harassment because having a unrestricted game chat makes things worse. people join gmod dark rp to play gmod dark rp, not to spend hours reading political arguements in chat, they tend to take over ooc and ruins the experience. if your wanting titsrp to become twitter at least twitter has some guardrails for what can be posted.

this is what the discussion is about, if you have a issue with the strip club bases and minion cocks then talk about the issue. thanks for bringing that up in the debate, its just the other half is kinda like i dont know whether or not you understand the whole point of this discussion

maybe just don't be gay idk

You having she her in your username tells me all I need to know

WHO CARESSSSSSSSSSS

you didnt even adress anything i said, making assumtions about who i am and telling me to touch grass doesnt change the point. lets not attack the person and instead attack the point please

this is a serious discussion about the server rules, and issues that im addressing, i am not going to take the comments as jokes as they arent even funny.

could you explain why you say " gay people espeically online make themselves a easy target" what do you mean by that, from my understanding if i make my profile with pride flags on my profile the weirdo chuds who are actually klan members tend to avoid me.

last i check admins can in fact control what players do in the server, its by enforcing the rules they made. a player cant raid within 2 minutes of already raiding because of the rules, if not then they arent a player for long. an age verification system is not possible, then how are you guys enforcing the TOS when players under the age of 13 joined, if you guys just move the age up to 18 im sure nothing in the moderation cycle or routine would change.

this is a server that holds players from all walks of life, religious, non religious, lgbtq, the anit lgbtq, nazi's, americans, minors, and more. but one thing ive noticed is the amount of players Preaching Jesus Christ now i find religious topics part of political discussion that is not allowed in garrys mod dark rp out of character chat. This is a server that prides itself in the inclusion of players above the age of 13, as state by multiple admins. personally it makes me uncomfortable when children are playing a game that has "meth, kidnapping, murder, vaping, players that say every slur in the book, players who joke about ****, players who joke about hate crimes, etc" now when there are minors being exposed to stuff like this its really weird. im not going to pretend like this is normal behavior, letting minors hang around the bottom of the bin weirdos of gmod is not good. now other servers are worse, Zcity for example, "they dont enforce their rules so what happens is you will hear the most worst thing imaginable in spectator chat from a 28 year old man then right after a minute passes the in game chat you will hear someone younger than your younger sibling playing the same game i am asking people which button is it to pick up guns" this server does enforce its rules, however it can be better with the rules it has in general. like why is it in game i hear people talking about ice, Netanyahu, george floyd, every internet political debate you stay up late enough. and then in a second you hear someone who should be doing homework in middle school asking how to cook meth or to join their gang. i feel like adding a rule in between the DO NOT use racial/homophobic/generally offensive slurs or be overly offensive to other players/staff. DO NOT be extremely vulgar on the server, especially OOC. Making vulgar jokes/responses is fine, but being overly sexual or overly graphic will get you warned and then kicked / banned. with the suggestions being: do not bring political debates or discussion into ooc or rp do not talk about offensive topics such as: nazi's, racism, pedo accusations, real life topics, religious debates. or just make this server a 18+ server and let people continue what they are doing, because its not weird if its adults talking offensive to each other but instead this is a online space where adults and minors hang out so therefore you need rules that reflect, players behavior have created a uncomfortable environment and i do not like what i see day to day on the server. if you read this tell me what you think, if theres a rule that we could suggest to the admins to add, or whether my take is complete nonsense. heres another take, i dont see any lgbtq support and whenever people do put up flags trolls grief the hell out of it, my questions is why is there people preaching Christianity in what is essentially a kids game. gmod darkrp is a kids game if you allow children in it, people under the age of 18, you need rules that reflect that.