Feb 11, 2013, 07:45 PM
I love you Womb, but I have to say that I agree with Sugga (who is also no angel). My OPINION is that while a double standard like: shooting frag seeking crit rockets as a pyro for laughs among the community members playing, all in good fun and not to troll, is an appropriate double standard that should not be given to everyone who is a part of the community, saying things which are hurtful and against the rules is an inappropriate double standard for two reasons. The first is the most obvious, just because an admin said it, doesn't prevent it from being hurtful to others and secondly, and perhaps just as obvious is that unlike shooting mysterious crit rockets, which only admins CAN do, anyone who gets on the server with a keyboard/mic can write/speak those hurtful words. Furthermore, if its an environment where hurtful words are spoken, does it matter who said it? I think it still makes the environment hurtful and unwelcoming whether it is just one or all of us. But if it is just one, the worst person to do it is an admin. If, for example it was me who is hurt by certain words a community member had said and were also prohibited from saying by the rules, how confident would I be that something would be done to make it a better place for me, if the person I have to go to about it, also does it?