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Um absolutely not! We are alive and doing very well and going to continue to grow! Go and congratulate SMD on his promotion to a Division Staff position! [HG] SMD [S]

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I'm aware that this has been looked in to before I returned to HG but I'm not the biggest fan of the outcome and I'd like to make some arguments in favor of making the rule against homophobic slurs found in the TF2 and CS:S divisions become global across all of our divisions. I'm sure that everyone agrees in HG that homophobia has no place within our community and I'm posting this with the hopeful assumption that people's arguments against this rule aren't discriminatory but instead a matter of reason. I want to make it clear that I'm no social justice warrior wanting to rid the world of anything even slightly toxic, but this rule in particular I'm hopeful for because I'm not in fact straight myself, I'm bisexual. I take particular issue with homophobic slurs, the biggest way they're used as an insult is to describe someone feminine and I don't find it fair as not every person who isn't straight is feminine, including myself - I'd say I'm pretty masculine, it's just a stereotype that doesn't fit everyone that I personally don't like to be grouped under. I believe the biggest argument against this rule when discussed before my return to HG was that some divisions have more mature audiences who can take it. I find this unreasonable, age doesn't come in to play when it comes to discrimination, there are 60 year old men who've been imprisoned in their lifetime who play these games (of course very few but there are), they have serious trauma hearing these slurs not only said to them but about other people too. I find it odd how we have rules against racism and not homophobia, homosexuals of course haven't had it as bad as black people however they have had it pretty fucking rough. I'm not saying we should ban every single person who says it, it can be lenient, we can warn multiple times before taking action on it I really don't mind how severely it's treated but I'm a little disturbed that at the minute in some divisions we just take no issue to it and find it acceptable, that shouldn't be the case at all in my opinion. Attached to this thread is a poll where we can get a summary on people's support, if you could I'd appreciate you to vote on it so that those of power that can do something can see what the overall view of HG is on the subject. If you can I'd also like people to share their opinions below, regardless of if you support the rule or are against it, if you're against it let's constructively debate, you won't be assumed as a homophobe by me at least and I'm sure others will give you the benefit of the doubt as well. EDIT: Just to be clear this doesn't have to be a rule of it's own - It can be tied in with the racism rule(s) by turning it/them in to rules regarding discrimination in general. EDIT 2: Please see this reply by BOSCH. It's already a rule and not being enforced. It needs to be enforced.

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I usually believed that England was not the sunny kind of place to be, and it's good to get this confirmed again by another person from England. Welcome to the Community @akai___!

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So I am not going to engage in any kind of debate or argument on this subject, but I will give my take on it. Racial slurs and homophobic slurs are both the same IMO they are both offensive to most people rather they are gay or a minority. They are discriminating / offensive / disrespectful words. Even if these words are not directed to a gay/minority person it still would make some people feel uncomfortable and they would possibly leave our community or not play on our servers and or not speak highly about us to their friends about us which is not good for us. We should hold a higher standard when it comes to this subject. Our goal is to set the bar high and maintain a great vibe and outlet for young kids/teens to come and enjoy themselves and make awesome friends to game with and talk to. We also want to look out for our current and future population. I can totally understand if people are in a private table channel and these individuals don't have any kind of issues with these words being used and are using them privately then so be it. But if these words are being used privately they should be used with care meaning people should ask if anyone has any issues with these words unless they already know they do or don't obviously. The only thing I would be concerned about as far as those words being used privately is that some teens may have younger siblings that are hearing these kinds of words and I don't think that HG should condone that kind of behavior and be a contributing platform for it. I know this is a very touchy subject as it should be some people will agree with me and some people won't and some people will be neutral which all is fine. We are a community and diversity is expected and inevitable. I do want to say that my opinion as far as In a game or in public TS channels these kinds of words should not be tolerated period. Again my take, and opinion on it, I am always trying to look out for the betterment/growth of our community in the past/current as well as the future of course.

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Welcome to HG Akai!!! happy to have you!

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I voted Yes, The use of homophobic slurs have always been to insult or describe someone of a differing sexual orientation. This is a horrible word to use in any community especially for comical reasons. This not only makes possible new -hg- Recruits think twice about joining HG if they themselves do not like the word, but could also stop visiting HG overall because of them or someone else taking offense to it. I've seen other communities having no restricting on this and their population on the servers as well as the clan members in total as dramatically lower. Little to zero restriction on this form of grammatical usage shows complete immaturity to the ones who decide to use it, but more of a view towards HG instead. The HG clan would not be viewed as professional or mature for not establishing prohibitions on the related words due to it's very advanced hierarchy as well as the amount of clan members, servers, server visitors/players, and much more. There are much easier ways of portraying emotions or feelings to friends or other players than having to use a word that historically means nothing but immaturity to the user and offense to the recipient. My over all view in this conversation is, it should have prohibited use throughout all of HeLLsGamers. This shows an extraordinarily larger amount of respect for the individuals who are of different orientations and not to mention the welcoming & comfort that we wish to grant any and all HG Members/participants.

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