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By: Itanya Blade

Itanya Blade — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:27:19 +0000

Jewben is that Tarquin nub.

He likes to be lit on fire.

By: Adorable Girlfriend

Adorable Girlfriend — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:17:19 +0000

JewBen? Is JewBen a member of the AG tribe?

AG blushes and twinkles her eyelashes.

By: Jewben

Jewben — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:24:12 +0000

To be fair, the fellow who dropped channel was in the middle of a raid, and since I guess this was a subject he feels strongly about he probably did not want to be distracted if the conversation continues. Which I appreciate cause he was one of my healers. >_>

But yeah that’s not really a classy exit, and a good example of why that is a bad environment to discuss politics. The best political discussion I’ve had lately was myself and Hannah, at 3 in the morning, drunk as shit, discussing gun control. It was epic.

By: torteya

torteya — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:26:11 +0000

Hint: It will be payable in Goldshire.

Sorry about the “inside joke,” non WoW people!

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:21:53 +0000

Political, religious, and other potentially-inflammatory subjects were banned from the Nox channel a long time ago, simply because we do have people from a wide spectrum of beliefs, but not necessarily individuals that can always calmly and rationally discuss their opposing views. (Note that this doesn’t make them bad people, just ones who will sometimes let their passionate opinions about a topic temporarily eclipse their consideration for others’ feelings.

It’s worked pretty well for us, and we’ve only had to remind someone of that rule… once? in the last three years.

We don’t have that restriction in the raid channel, but so far when differing views come into play, people have been civil. It’s probably their fear of Malkavet’s wrath.

Also, Davien would have done the first thing even if it wasn’t presented as a favor owed. They were on the same side at Sorrow Pass. Bricu would have only had to ask.

The GM in me is still wincing at the favor-to-be-named-later.

By: maety

maety — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:28:51 +0000

In his defence, he did get them to owe him favors..

By: Mommacow

Mommacow — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:16:03 +0000

Also. I have been laughing my butt off all afternoon at the mental image of annoyed, shept, frozen Bricu. Just thought I’d mention that.

By: Mommacow

Mommacow — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:15:12 +0000

Heh. I don’t *have* any places I feel comfortable discussing politics – I’m too liberal for most conservative sites, too conservative by half for the liberal ones, and I don’t enjoy arguing anyway. My two major timesinks are fandom, which tilts overwhelmingly liberal, and beadwork, which makes fandom look like the John Birch Society.

So I just make the occasional rightward moo.

By: Lewis

Lewis — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:38:11 +0000

There are places I feel comfortable discussing politics, and places I don’t. I tend to keep my politics out of WoW–partially because most of the folks I know are politically opposite from me as far as I can tell, and partially because it’s just not the place for it. Marty’s right–if we started to get into a political argument in a WoW chat channel, one of us (probably me, as I’m fairly non-confrontational) would break it off. If I felt like I was getting piled on, I’d leave, but I wouldn’t do it in a snotty manner. I’d just log off and go do something else.

I’m politically active, but it’s not who I am. It’s just a part of the greater whole.

By: Itanya Blade

Itanya Blade — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:10:20 +0000

The funny thing is that we can have a perfectly civil discussion for the most part in the blog (and probably could have one in person) and not feel like “I should shut up.”

And that Jackbooted Right Winger, also has a brain and likes to exercise it. I approve of him.