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Gay Guild Recruitment Disallowed From WoW?
Fireball394 wrote with a link to an article on the site 'In Newsweekly'. The article, entitled "Blizzard of GLBT gaming policy questions", discusses the application of a harassment warning on a player who was recruiting for a GLBT guild. From the article: "In her follow-up letter to the company, Andrews explained that there was an obvious misunderstanding and that she was not insulting anyone, but merely recruiting for a 'GLBT friendly' guild. The response from Blizzard was, 'While we appreciate and understand your point of view, we do feel that the advertisement of a GLBT friendly guild is very likely to result in harassment for players that may not have existed otherwise. If you will look at our policy, you will notice the suggested penalty for violating the Sexual Orientation Harassment Policy is to be temporarily suspended from the game. However, as there was clearly no malicious intent on your part, this penalty was reduced to a warning.' Blizzard's stance was clear that recruiting for a guild using 'GLBT' was inappropriate as, the company said, it may 'incite certain responses in other players that will allow for discussion that we feel has no place in our game.'"
I sleep with girls and I'm a guy, I sleep with girls and I'm a guy, I sleep with girls and I'm a guy... Now wasn't that unnecessary? So are sexual deviates screaming in public that they perform perverted acts. If you're going to live a lifestyle that is against nature, sinful and basically sick to the majority of the world then keep it to yourself and you won't have problems. I don't see bank robbers and child molesters running around making guilds or having parades...
Karma: a way in which to silence those with an unpopular viewpoint regardless if the view is correct and just.
Recruit outside WoW. Use a guild website and GLBT chat rooms, etc.. dont bother oother players in game by saying "if your gay, join our guild" because the bottom line is, most players are kids, and kids talk trash, and moreso, love to talk trash about the GLBT community.
Hrrm... I usually just sign my name.
It promotes seperation. Call it male-friendly, women-friendly, gay-friendly, black friendly, repulican-friendly,... You target a specfic group based on sex, colour, blelievs and it's totally irrelevant to the game. It's the popular way of doing "political-correct" discrimination. Just stating you'll accept others too doesn't really
change it's main purpose.
To be pedantic, it's discrimintory against players which are not as open-minded towards sexual orientation. WOW is a game. Stick to it's rules and don't try to push your unrelated agenda. This kind of guild is completely offtopic and just spoils gameplay. If you want to discriminate, create an orc-friendly guild or whatever.