Post by Deleted on May 28, 2015 21:38:02 GMT -5
Hello,
I used to play at QAW servers something like 6 years ago. I restarted playing ET a few days ago and was really glad your server was still online, it has always been the best in my opinion.
I have never caused any trouble during the games, always checked for the SK red zones images in order to follow the server rules. Actually, I love the fact that QAW server has lots of players with levels to warn, mute, kick or ban who is messing with the game, I really like to play and rarely chat.
Tonight, 2 hours ago, I was playing with my nickname LEDO and after a really fast victory of the Allied team, someone asked "Where were the Axis?". I replied: "creating jew jokes".
The essence of my comment is simply the fact that there are lots of people disrespecting the Jew people and making fun of the Holocaust and the nazism (so, there are thousands of "jew jokes"). I think this "humour" is completely imature, specially because all my father's family is Jewish and came to South America running away from the Holocaust. My last name is jewish, from Poland (Zajdsznajder). The reason is not merely personal, I also find these jokes repetitive and I think that people who make fun of jews are just trying to show off, to be the bad boy that doesn't care about death and terror.
So, without further ado: I found it weird that the "jew" word was misplaced by the *** filter. So I "hacked" the filter and typed "j....E...w" just so my sentence could be understood.
After this message "j....E...w", I got muted. After a few minutes I got unmuted and wanted to know who muted me and why. After some hesitation, lurch told me it was him who had muted me. I asked why and he refused to tell me, told me to come here if I wanted to "discuss". I never wanted to discuss, just wanted to know if it was forgiven to say the word JEW, that is a common word, not a curse word, and I didn't even make a jew joke, so I really thought it was excessive to mute me...
So many guys started to tell me to be quiet. I was playing the game, just writing a few sentences while I was dead (just like everyone does). To sum up, these was the messages I sent (not 100% accurate, just saying what I meant, but you can check the logs)
- Is talking forbidden also? because you are talking too... (This was after being told to be quiet by some other player I can't remember)
- I can write Catholic and Muslim but can't write the other religion?
Apparently, this was enough for "lurch" and "tonofclay" to !mute me at the same time. I kept there playing for more 20 minutes or so and left, still muted.
So I did what lurch told me, came here to discuss two things:
1) I know people make jew jokes, but is it necessary filtering the word jew instead of punishing who does so (specially since there are admins online almost all the time)
2) Do you (the rest of the admnistrative staff) agrees with these two !mute I got? One for saying "j....E....w" and the other for talking while I was dead, politely, not going against any rule?
Just wanted to finish with MY opinion: I think lurch and tonofclay were abusive. I'm almost 100% sure, by the way, that tonofclay said "culo" in the very next map, and another player (that is regular and known in QAW server, so must be friend of everyone) who has nothing to do with my problem said "culiao" without any punishment. So, how's that? You can swear if you have some levels, or if it's in spanish or if you're popular?
Thank you very much for your atention and I apologize for any English mistakes.
Thales Zajdsznajder (LEDO)
I used to play at QAW servers something like 6 years ago. I restarted playing ET a few days ago and was really glad your server was still online, it has always been the best in my opinion.
I have never caused any trouble during the games, always checked for the SK red zones images in order to follow the server rules. Actually, I love the fact that QAW server has lots of players with levels to warn, mute, kick or ban who is messing with the game, I really like to play and rarely chat.
Tonight, 2 hours ago, I was playing with my nickname LEDO and after a really fast victory of the Allied team, someone asked "Where were the Axis?". I replied: "creating jew jokes".
The essence of my comment is simply the fact that there are lots of people disrespecting the Jew people and making fun of the Holocaust and the nazism (so, there are thousands of "jew jokes"). I think this "humour" is completely imature, specially because all my father's family is Jewish and came to South America running away from the Holocaust. My last name is jewish, from Poland (Zajdsznajder). The reason is not merely personal, I also find these jokes repetitive and I think that people who make fun of jews are just trying to show off, to be the bad boy that doesn't care about death and terror.
So, without further ado: I found it weird that the "jew" word was misplaced by the *** filter. So I "hacked" the filter and typed "j....E...w" just so my sentence could be understood.
After this message "j....E...w", I got muted. After a few minutes I got unmuted and wanted to know who muted me and why. After some hesitation, lurch told me it was him who had muted me. I asked why and he refused to tell me, told me to come here if I wanted to "discuss". I never wanted to discuss, just wanted to know if it was forgiven to say the word JEW, that is a common word, not a curse word, and I didn't even make a jew joke, so I really thought it was excessive to mute me...
So many guys started to tell me to be quiet. I was playing the game, just writing a few sentences while I was dead (just like everyone does). To sum up, these was the messages I sent (not 100% accurate, just saying what I meant, but you can check the logs)
- Is talking forbidden also? because you are talking too... (This was after being told to be quiet by some other player I can't remember)
- I can write Catholic and Muslim but can't write the other religion?
Apparently, this was enough for "lurch" and "tonofclay" to !mute me at the same time. I kept there playing for more 20 minutes or so and left, still muted.
So I did what lurch told me, came here to discuss two things:
1) I know people make jew jokes, but is it necessary filtering the word jew instead of punishing who does so (specially since there are admins online almost all the time)
2) Do you (the rest of the admnistrative staff) agrees with these two !mute I got? One for saying "j....E....w" and the other for talking while I was dead, politely, not going against any rule?
Just wanted to finish with MY opinion: I think lurch and tonofclay were abusive. I'm almost 100% sure, by the way, that tonofclay said "culo" in the very next map, and another player (that is regular and known in QAW server, so must be friend of everyone) who has nothing to do with my problem said "culiao" without any punishment. So, how's that? You can swear if you have some levels, or if it's in spanish or if you're popular?
Thank you very much for your atention and I apologize for any English mistakes.
Thales Zajdsznajder (LEDO)