This line of reasoning consistently defends the offender by blaming the users for expecting a baseline of civility.
The choice isn’t between a ‘lawless wasteland’ and 'aggressive real-time moderation. It’s about whether an official platform should have basic, automated filters against the most blatant hate speech - the same way most games filter the worst slurs from usernames or in-game chat.
Arguing that it’s ‘unsustainable’ to stop racial slurs from flooding an official group chat is just arguing for the right to be a bigot without consequence. What I was ‘expecting’ is for Valve to implement the bare minimum of community management on their own official platforms. The fact that this is seen as an unreasonable ask is the entire problem.
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This line of reasoning consistently defends the offender by blaming the users for expecting a baseline of civility.
The choice isn’t between a ‘lawless wasteland’ and 'aggressive real-time moderation. It’s about whether an official platform should have basic, automated filters against the most blatant hate speech - the same way most games filter the worst slurs from usernames or in-game chat.
Arguing that it’s ‘unsustainable’ to stop racial slurs from flooding an official group chat is just arguing for the right to be a bigot without consequence. What I was ‘expecting’ is for Valve to implement the bare minimum of community management on their own official platforms. The fact that this is seen as an unreasonable ask is the entire problem.