Broadly offending content ~ what is it for *you*?

He better make sure to use some antimonkeybutt.com beforehand. >.>

... but then again, I must disclose that I have committed at least a couple of Desmond's cardinal SL sins in my time. And I'm not sorry

Well, the idea here is to see if there's a common thread to what's offending, i.e. broadly offending (or not).

Well, the idea here is to see if there's a common thread to what's offending, i.e. broadly offending (or not).

And that's the crux of the problem. "Broadly offending" has nothing to so with what I find offensive*, has nothing to do with what you find offensive and, in all likelihood, has nothing to do with what an actual, statistical majority of the target population finds offensive. No offense Argent, but these are usually referred to as "weasel words"** -- statements and wordings for which the meaning can be adjusted to match the desired outcome and/or to distort perceptions.


(*for the record I agree with so many previous posters: things done in a virtual world can be annoying at best unless they, somehow, translate into injury of someone in the real world at which point (and never earlier) they become offensive)

(**and I'm going to actively champion that this mismustelanic (is that the term?) aphorism be abolished in the future)

Ummm. I didn't read the rest of this thread, so I'm not sure if this has already been mentioned but "What is 'broadly offending to me'?" is an oxymoron. "Broadly Offensive" means that "it is offensive to a large number (broad range) of people". So you (or any other one person) cannot define what is broadly offensive. Only asking a large sampling of people and finding out what offends a substantial number of people can you define it.

It's interesting how many people here are posting descriptions of a world very similar to the one being imposed on us by the new adult policy. Maybe LL know our collective minds better than we do.

I guess I'm just not offended as much as some. To me being offended by gesture spam is a bit silly. Irritated? Maybe, although I'm not even irritated by it much, unless it's the ASCI gestures that take up the whole screen. When I'm DJing and trying to keep up with chat, it makes it difficult.

Other things that don't offend me:
-Tummer Talkers
-Group Invites (Unless I've never been to their store/shop and they come into the sim and just start spamming. This would be an irritation, not something that offends me.)
-RPing being foisted on me (I politely tell them I'm not in their game and move on. Nothing to be offended up there.)
-Sex? No, I'm a grownup...kinda. (consenting adults, of course)
-Griefing...yet another minor irritant
-most everything I don't consider offensive....maybe stupid or irritating, but not offensive

What *I* consider offensive
-Violence and terrorism and stalking and abuse...not just giving shit abuse, but real abuse that causes trauma and harm
-Racism and sexism in any form, including religous "superiority"
-Any type of religious fundamentalism whereby someone seems to think they have The Truth and needs to save me (And what is this "being saved" nonsense.....past tense in any type of spirituality is worthless. If you're "saved," congratulations on yesterday's "victory," now stop being a moron today please?)
-Theft and fraud and deceit, especially when perpetrated by a group or person who is claiming high moral and spiritual ground, IE our previous administration.
-In short, I find someone that causes other people real harm to be offensive. By real harm, I"m not talking about someone who thinks that "those gays are harming my little baby's impressionable mind...." That's perceived harm based on your hate and fear, thank you.

So yeah, I'm not offended by much except something that actually harms and abuses me or someone else.

In other words, there's really not much to be offended by in Second Life, to be honest. And if I'm irritated by alot in SL, maybe I should get a grip and look at myself, rather than why someone "Hooing" really bugs me.

It's interesting how many people here are posting descriptions of a world very similar to the one being imposed on us by the new adult policy. Maybe LL know our collective minds better than we do.

I'd be one of those people who would love to put all the "HOOOO!!" "YEEHAWWWW!!" and "that's my sissy over there!!" people on their own special island. You know who I mean, the people who spew it over and over and over again. I don't think people who use those gestures, talkers, voices etc need to be banned but I do find them incredibly irritating. I find them so irritating I tend to leave my speakers off, which can then lead to missing the 'ding' IM's make. Then I sometimes miss the IM.

I find the barrage of gestures equally pointless and irritating. Say someone I really want to talk to comes online but the announcement gets lost in the spam. Then the IM comes in but I miss the tab and the ding due to the speakers being off. Cool! Like really laggy sims, I subject myself to those places/people rarely now.

Otherwise I'm lucky, I have never really dealt with any serious harm, terrorism or abuse in 2L. I can't even guess how one would translate into the other. It is a cartoon after all.

I didn't notice that at all. There's way too much variation to draw that kind of conclusion.

For my personal view I don't find any of those things offensive. I think there's something wrong with people who are offended by pictures on a screen. But I'm clearly in a minority on that.

...For my personal view I don't find any of those things offensive. I think there's something wrong with people who are offended by pictures on a screen. But I'm clearly in a minority on that.

OK, well this sort of thing is always going to get shot down by others who claim I misunderstood or whatever but that never stopped me before.

I made a quick summary of relevant things that some people here found offensive

Tegg Bode #136
Sex in G or PG public areas, Vore in Mature areas

Lewis Luminos #134
gory (i.e. extreme violence) or pornoraphic pictures

Scylla Rhiadra #130
Violence especially sexualized.

Smith Peel #128
Vore

Oryx Tempel #115
Various sexual fetishes and X rated adverts

Argus Collingwood: #86
RL XXX Photos

Arcady Yue: #23
BDSM / Gor

Argent Stonecutter: #5
Considers some sexual fetishes broadly offensive



Now, people aren't saying they want it segregated they are just saying what they find offensive. But if I was LL and I saw this thread I'd immediately start trying to find a way to prevent all these people from being offended and I'd probably come up with something very similar to what we are seeing happen now.

For my personal view I don't find any of those things offensive. I think there's something wrong with people who are offended by pictures on a screen. But I'm clearly in a minority on that.

Control freaks - I would bet my arse are the minority.

Maybe you're not in the minority on that.

But if I was LL and I saw this thread I'd immediately start trying to find a way to prevent all these people from being offended and I'd probably come up with something very similar to what we are seeing happen now.