Guest John Q Listener Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 Forum name: Noctis Anarch Caelum Link to post: Nature of violation: Usage of the transphobic slur "troon". This has been previously ruled on here and should be no contention that this is intended as a transphobic slur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chief Wiggum Posted December 3, 2019 Moderators Share Posted December 3, 2019 This has already been discussed with some of your members, but I will also state it here: The forum moderation team doesn't recognize "troons" as a slur, since no valid source establishes it as such and is hardly known by pretty much anyone (apart from your own community). An alternative meaning has been given from the "other side", so without any official evidence, there is no reason to prefer one term from the other. Regarding the Game Report you use as a reference, that's not a recognition of the word you mention as a slur. Action was taken at that time due to the whole phrase "x - sucks". 1 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Popular Post Alex Posted December 3, 2019 Administrators Popular Post Share Posted December 3, 2019 After some thinking and digging on the word "troon," my understanding is that the term originated on the SA forum as meaning "transgender goon" and the meaning has evolved into a pejorative for "a mannish mis-gendered transgender woman" and that it's evolved outside of the SA forum, it's being used on Twitter and identified in LGBT communities as a pejorative term used by anti-homosexual, anti-trans people and groups. I agree that the people who used it originally on the game forum probably didn't mean it in that way, but I do think it is a particularly hurtful/awful word for people who are transgender, in the same vein as words targeting other groups, and I just don't have a good feeling about allowing it on the forum. I don't know how many transgender players we actually have, but I don't want to foster a hateful community that makes them feel unwelcome. I am going to add "troon" to the filtered word list, so it should just be a non-issue from here on out. If people insist on using it on the forum, they'll be subject to the filter evasion rules, and I think that's the simplest way to handle this. I know the question about where we draw the line has arisen, and my intent is not to allow any word to be turned into a "slur" that gets banned on the forum. But I think I've done my due diligence on this one and I just don't feel good about letting it be used un-checked on the forum. Future cases like this we'll examine similarly and not necessarily just throw on the filtered list like this. 8 8 2 Is there a bug? Report It | Not understanding game mechanics? Ask About It | Got a good idea? Suggest ItForums Rules | Game Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest John Q Listener Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 (edited) Thanks Alex, it's not easy to strike a good balance here, but I think the word filter is a great solution. Edited December 3, 2019 by John Q Listener Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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