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I'm sure it's just the test server not configured correctly
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I do not believe that "Blacker" is inherently bad nor racist, and I also do not believe that title-case capitalization indicates racism either.
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Did they happen in the game, on Discord, or here on the forum?
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Where did these communications occur?
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We're reviewing this, and I've turned it into an in-game report for all the mods to look at. Thanks!
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The issue is the alliance is using broken image links, and they need to correct their alliance description. So it's not an issue on your end, it's an issue with how they set up their description.
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I've created an in-game report for the moderators to review, thank you.
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A reminder that this is a no-discussion forum. Topic locked.
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Thanks - we won't delete the bounty, but we'll delete the reason and issue a warning.
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I'll issue a warning - thanks for letting us know!
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Can you take a screenshot of the Edit page after you hit save?
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Thanks - I issued moderation points. He'll find himself quickly banned if he keeps it up.
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Too many things were trying to happen at once, it retries a few times and ultimately throws an error if that happens.
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spys getting caught and captured by 0 spy nations
Alex replied to Brian Boruma's topic in Tech Support
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Sounds like it was fixed about a week ago!
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"FAP's White Cream" is obviously a sexual innuendo, and perhaps should be forbidden, but it hasn't caused any issues to this point to my knowledge. But the word "White", and that it's capitalized, does not make it racist, you agree? While I would agree that "black" is an absolute in the literal sense, obviously there are shades of black. Some blacks can be blacker than other blacks. For example, if you went to a paint store, you could buy black paint, and likely a bunch of shades of black. But there's still Vantablack, which is going to be blacker than even the blackest paint you can buy at a paint store. I'm not sure I understand why you think "Bigger" makes it racist? Small, medium, big, etc. have no bearing on race AFAIK. I think you are the one who is purposefully misconstruing the whole thing to make something out of nothing. I also do not think there are long-standing issues of racism in this community. While I imagine there are people who may hold racist beliefs, we can't read people's minds and any expression of racist beliefs in the game has also resulted in moderation action. I have never seen someone say or take a racist action and intentionally ignored it or allowed it. Why not? I feel like title case would be appropriate. The Color Trade Blocs are supposed to have names, and typically in English you capitalize names. Why not? It's setup democratically where all bloc members have an opportunity to vote on the name they wish. I don't see any reason why a plurality of voters cannot name it after (almost) anything. I would say no, but obviously language is interpreted subjectively. As seems to be the case here - while you seem to think that "Bigger Blacker Knight" is inherently racist, I disagree and haven't seen anyone else yet see it from your point of view. I've never heard of "Mighty White of you" being used in anything but a pejorative manner. We would have take the same action if you had said "Mighty Black of you" to someone. Again, no one seems to be misinterpreting it but you. So I would ask to clarify, again, which part makes it racist? Is the word "Black" bad and so anything that uses "Black" racist? (I don't think there's anything wrong with "Black" or black people, personally, so I do not see anything racist about it.) Is it "Bigger" that makes it racist? I don't even see how saying something is big, or black, or big and black, is racist. Again, is "big" inherently bad? I'm assuming "Knight" is not exactly relevant since you haven't brought that up, but I don't know of any racist connotation in regards to knights. Is the alliance name "Black Knights" inherently racist?
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spys getting caught and captured by 0 spy nations
Alex replied to Brian Boruma's topic in Tech Support
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I have no interest in promotion any racism in the game, and I'm open to discussion on this. My interpretation of "Bigger Blacker Knight" would be that it's a play on the alliance name Black Knights which has a long history in the game. And I agree with @Mateus that the capitalization is likely title case capitalization, which almost all of the color bloc names follow. Even if "Blacker" were to refer to black people (which I am not and would not capitalize here, just as I would not refer to white people as "White people") I don't see anything inherently wrong with "bigger" or "blacker". Or "knight". None of those terms imply anything racist to me. What say you?
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I've forwarded this to the Discord moderation team.
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Can you elaborate a bit more?
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I just updated that for you since you asked nicely
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Im pretty sure this is against the rules take a look
Alex replied to Rexi's topic in Moderation Support
Yeah, it's part of the "politics" part of the game. Obviously, you don't have to pay this guy (or anyone) but you may have to fight him if you do not negotiate a peace agreement.