MMOs as an outlet for [future] child predators?

[Caocao]

Originally Posted by Twobit Whore

How the hell are they tainting it for an 'overwhelming percantage'? None of you even knew this shit existed until an hour ago.

Lol no shit.

[Zehn - Vhex]

It's not illegal and as I'm not religious, there really is no moral/ethical conflict. They could start a 'virtual child rape and murder' guild for all the Flying Spaghetti Monster cares.

As a matter of personal taste though? Fuck those guys. But then again, I found the "Hot anime chicks" thread to be one of the most disturbing, lowest points that FoH screenshots had ever gotten. Even the pedo threads were okay because we were all fucking around and mocking people. The number of people who jerked off to the HAC though made me cringe.

Ultimately? Different strokes I guess. Blizzard will do what they feel is financially best for them. There's nothing illegal about it and I doubt anybody is going to cancel their account because another guild on some shitty server is filled with 150 guys all pretending to be 6 year old girls and copy/pasting shit from horrible slash fanfic. If they feel 'allowing' this kinda shit will hurt their image, bye bye.

Though, didn't Sony ban that one chick who posted a bunch of torture fantasies on her website about her EQ character? I remember the main defense being "But you have dwarves cut in half hanging upside down from meat hooks in game..."

Ah well....

[Twobit Whore]

Blizzard took a lot of heat for the issue involving a gay guild recruiting in open channels.. I think they will weigh this decision heavily. At any rate, the people are disgusting and recruiting in open forums is borderline. They didn't engage in any activity though, so it's not a clear call. What they do in their own guildchat is their business though, and Blizzard should not exercise their rights to ban anyone for anything because of what they talk about 'privately'.

[Aamina]

I'm with Mist on this too. Its disturbing as hell, but legally they are doing nothing wrong. I say Blizzard should ban them, as well, but Blizzard never does anything I want them to so in all likelihood this will continue.

-Aamina

[Laerazi]

Well I was reading the original thread but it was just deleted.

IMO, if consenting adults want to role-play in private channels, regardless of the subject matter, it's their right to do so (in an ideal world). From what I read, the guild in question has a pretty thorough application process that takes age into consideration (underage children cannot join the guild). If a minor lies on the application then obviously problems start. Should the guild be punished if they were under the impression that everyone listening is an adult? I'd say that the same as blaming an adult for cybering with someone who they thought was of age, but turns out the other person is 12 or something. Of course it gets complicated when you thought that 12 year old was a 24 year old roleplaying a 12 year old.

[Dashal]

Originally Posted by Cybsled

Well for one thing, it creates a sticky issue for them. Enforcing it hardcore would generate the impression that they HAVE to enforce it. Then by failing to enforce further transgressions, they would be in essence allowing it.

Their solution: ignore it until it goes away or people forget about it cause they nerfed something.

Doesnt matter. Depending on how public this becomes they would need to do something. If it's confined to a couple of threads on the internet, they can ignore it or they may simply be ignorant of the whole thing. If it got more widespread they would be banned very quickly is my guess.

Big difference between making an attempt to stop it even if that's unsuccessful and just letting it happen.

[Quineloe]

if a child lies about their age, they forfeit all age-related protection imo

[Cybsled]

Though, didn't Sony ban that one chick who posted a bunch of torture fantasies on her website about her EQ character?

If I remember correctly, she wrote an origin for her rogue character. Basically some dark elf had her as his sex slave/sado outlet and would frequently violate her. When she gets a bit older (but still "underage"), she kills her captive and escapes and becomes a rogue. Honestly I thought SOE stepped way out of line, since it was just some fanfiction piece and wasn't even something done in game. Furthermore, it wasn't even that BAD a thing in the scheme of things because the theme of the fanfic was ANTI-Rape/Sadism/Pedo/etc...it basically just served as a backdrop to show that she went through alot of shit and it helped form the personality she forms as a result. "Evil guy kidnaps girl and does bad shit to her, girl kills the evil guy painfully and makes her escape." FFS, Kill Bill basically had the same fucking type of situation, more or less, with the origin of Lucy Liu's character Oren.

[Quineloe]

What's Kill Bill's Rating?

[Cybsled]

R

[Zehn - Vhex]

I think the reason blizzard gave for disbanding the "Gays only" guild was because it was discriminating. It's like their stance on "Christian only" guilds. You can form but you can't advertise on public forms.

Seeing as how this guild apparently doesn't discriminate at all...

[dechire]

id ban them and report them to the authorities if it was my game. Fuck their roleplaying, molesting a kid isn't a fucking joke.

Now fucking the cheerleader on the otherhand...

[Vatoreus]

Originally Posted by dechire

id ban them and report them to the authorities if it was my game. Fuck their roleplaying, molesting a kid isn't a fucking joke.

Now fucking the cheerleader on the otherhand...

The authorities would say they were sorry they couldn't help you.

[Zehn - Vhex]

And then they'd tell you to go back to class.

[dechire]

Originally Posted by Vatoreus

The authorities would say they were sorry they couldn't help you.

i wouldn't be so sure about that, but go ahead and join them if you want and let me know how it works out for you.