[diademus]

i like the way the witcher series handles this "political correctness" BS which was nothing that existed back in the medieval time or anyone realy cared about. The more time you spent on trying to survive the less time you have to worry about thoughts like this... the average working hours per day back then almost sucked the whole life out the people´s body imo. Just the people today with to much time see everywhere a problem;)

[wisielec]

I applaud... how do you make a game politically correct when you are waveing a tale of times the political correctness was nowhere to be found? The law of the stronger and natural selection was the only law life adhered to.

Mysogynist my ass. Was the game made specifically to portray women in deregatory way? Or to present a world that is not full of sparks and rainbows? There are characters we may call mysogynistic (?), events that bear the mark of and all in all a shitty world to live in. But does that make the game itself misogynistic? Answer yourselves.

[Wichat]

Azriel77 said:

it is obvious created by the white knight/fems/prudes,etc groups that have been moving from website to website shoving this crap into every discussion regardless of whatever the topic is. ›››

I think it is an unwise assertion, plus knowing that the creators of the posts are devoted users of this forum and CDPR.
This trend of turning ONE punctual opinion on a specific event is converted into the UNIQUE way of thinking with some sort of hidden intentions to subvert the common people .... is a very groundless ultra-defensive trend.

[Corylea]

Flamebait deleted.

[Azriel77]

Not flamebait, look at the op, only "2" post by them in 15 days? It is obviously a sockpuppet (a person who create multiple accounts and pretent to be more than one person). I am not speaking for all threads created, some might be real, but the trend has shown up on multiple sites that talked about art, video games, movies, books, etc. Whenever one thread closes, another is put back up almost instantly, and to make it clear, I have not been on this board in a while, I am talking about OTHER websites where I have seen this happen, I bet its the same here. Again, this is not flamebait, I just pointing out that the site MIGHT be getting trolled by a particular group if the poster of threads like this is brand new like the op is.

[Guy N'wah]

Baloney. This is not a troll topic, because it has been raised repeatedly by members of long standing. (That's not to say it's welcomed with open arms, because it's been beaten to death even more times than it's been raised from the dead.)

And if you want to be taken seriously, refraining from casting insults at other members is a good place to start.

[Azriel77]

Guy N said:

Baloney. This is not a troll topic, because it has been raised repeatedly by members of long standing. (That's not to say it's welcomed with open arms, because it's been beaten to death even more times than it's been raised from the dead.)

And if you want to be taken seriously, refraining from casting insults at other members is a good place to start. ›››

Sorry, but when you see this topic on every-single-forum regardless of the subject (book, art, games, etc). You cannot help but be sick to death of it. Those who post this in good standing(been here a while) is fine...to a point(opening the same topic for the 25th time miiiiggghhtt be pushing it), but how many times has this thread been reopened? How many NEW members with only a few posts appear to open these threads and never say anything else? Some are authentic, but I have seen on many sites which are obviously created by trolls to start flamewars.

Again, not trying to be flamebait, I am just stating a trend I have seen on other websites.

[Sirnaq]

Guy N said:

Baloney. This is not a troll topic, because it has been raised repeatedly by members of long standing. (That's not to say it's welcomed with open arms, because it's been beaten to death even more times than it's been raised from the dead.)

And if you want to be taken seriously, refraining from casting insults at other members is a good place to start. ›››

Kidding aside, im still surprised this kind of threads are not bannable offense. Just look at my little prank thread, personal attacks and general offending all over the place and 10 pages ++ without my further assistance. It's like putting stick into anthill. And honestly, i really don't feel that op is genuine poster. Hope this will be lesson for future.

[grregg]

Sirnaq said:

Kidding aside, im still surprised this kind of threads are not bannable offense. Just look at my little prank thread, personal attacks and general offending all over the place and 10 pages ++ without my further assistance. It's like putting stick into anthill. And honestly, i really don't feel that op is genuine poster. Hope this will be lesson for future. ›››

If you don't like them, don't start them?

Besides I think you're exaggerating. Sure, tempers tend to flare when topics like these are discussed, but by and large the discussions have been civil. Mostly anyway. Why ban topics/people preemptively?

[Sirnaq]

Maybe not bannable, but surely threads like this should (in my opinion) be deleted by moderators, as any threads that try to tell people how to think. I wouldn't call this thread civil, it didn't crossed the line, but civil? My thread also wasn't civil even though it was almost told to posters that it isn't serious thread. If somoene try to shove ideology down someone else throat people tend to object. And there you have offtopic flamewar on game forum that was not created for ideology wars.

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- the content of which could be considered pornographic, sexist, racist, etc.,
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In my book, creating threads like that is violation of these two rules, because
one: op is trying to provoke racist and sexist responses
two: provoke ideology responses to insult other users of the forum

[grregg]

Sirnaq said:

Maybe not bannable, but surely threads like this should be deleted by moderators, as any threads that try to tell people how to think. I wouldn't call this thread civil, it didn't crossed the line, but civil? My thread also wasn't civil even though it was almost told to posters that it isn't serious thread. If somoene try to shove ideology down someone else throat people tend to object. And there you have offtopic flamewar on game forum that was not created for ideology wars. ›››

Heh... Forgive me but aren't you being overly dramatic here? It's a web page, it's mind-bending and brain-washing powers are severely limited. It's not like someone is shoving their opinions down our throats, we can always click on a different thread. Not to mention that this is a discussion forum, right? Discussions oftentimes involve exchange of opinions and attempts to persuade others to one's way of thinking. Somehow I don't see it as a problem. Why would it be?

Besides, aren't you effectively saying "These are evil, evil threads, we cannot have our youth corrupted by them, and I should know because the latest one was started by me?" (some dramatization included) Just so you know, it makes your protestations sound a bit hollow.

It might also be worth noting that this thread was on its way to oblivion when Azriel popped in to assure us that it's all a global conspiracy of evil sockpuppets.

[Sirnaq]

Yep, well i implyed how people should think about new cdpr's art, and surprisingly enough they do start to think about it that way, even though they said themselves that if not for that thread they would just ignore it. Also why wouldn't they just ignore obvious troll thread? Discussion is ok, insulting and provoking people is not. Also i can tell that we ar all tired of these kinds of threads.

[*Tommy*]

Joke or no joke anyone has the right to open threads to his or her whim . Don`t think though that locking or deleting threads haven`t crossed my mind a time or two in recent memory . In any thread that`s opened ...especially threads of this type i tend to give each and every member ample opportunity to respond accordingly as long as no forum rules are broken . Try thinking of them as debates where one or more persons tries to turn the thinking of other members . Sometimes they work and other times they don`t . I have to also be neutral in decisions no matter what i think or feel about certain threads .

But that`s not to say i`m infallible . Given a long , hard day at work where nothing goes right and come here hoping for some peace and relaxation and find flamers and baiters and trollers and who can say what can happen...hmm maybe food for thought .

[Wichat]

Sirnaq said:

In my book, creating threads like that is violation of these two rules, because
one: op is trying to provoke racist and sexist responses
two: provoke ideology responses to insult other users of the forum ›››

Yes, you're right: some of those threads provoke or try to provoke... but don't broke the rules in fact. Broken the rules would be those posts which answer the thread insulting or the content of which could be construed as insulting to third parties or other users of www.thewitcher.com. The term provoke doesn't appears here, because provoking a discussion or debate is not bad but provoking using an insulte or making apology to the intransigence is not good.