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Old 01-27-2005, 10:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Kaimetsu
Zero Hour, your arguments are laughable. I cannot imagine what agenda they are supposed to be serving.

It is extremely probable that the message was injected into the game by a user.
It is extremely probable that the message was intended to offend the recipient.
It is extremely probable, then, that the sender considers the term derogatory.

Which would make him a homophobe.
No, no. It's not especially an argument, it's more of a explaination of my perspective. I could not see how it would be understood as homophobia so quickly.

The messages being sent serverside (as far as I understand) would make a user (assuming players are not aware of the :sendchat command) sending the message very unlikely, so one would think that's not the case. Ofcourse, if it was sent by a staff member (which we later found it was) I can understand it being homophobic. Otherwise, I have stated my perspective.

I understand how it could be taken as a homophobic comment now, but even I didn't think it would be user sent since only Event Staff have the ability to use the command, and I thought it wasn't given to all of them.
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