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• I play the game. I also agree 100%
  I play the game frequently. I also agree with what these people are saying Blizzards policy. You shouldn't be discussing such things in the game. Regardless of whether it's mainstream sexuality or GLBT sexuality.

  January 31, 2006

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• sigh...
  Hello underinformed over-reactionist. How are you today?
  
  They're not telling one certain group to shut up. They're telling the people in their TEEN rated game they don't want them talking about sexual orientation.
  
  Don't Ask Don't Tell.
  
  It's a policy to PROTECT the GLBT segment of the population, not to oppress them.

  January 31, 2006

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• mispost..
  posted in wrong thread...

  January 31, 2006

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• sigh...
  Hello underinformed over-reactionist. How are you today?
  
  They're not telling one certain group to shut up. They're telling the people in their TEEN rated game they don't want them talking about sexual orientation.
  
  Don't Ask Don't Tell.
  
  It's a policy to PROTECT the GLBT segment of the population, not to oppress them.

  January 31, 2006

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• Blizzard already does
  You know blizzard already does this right? They're just slow to react and don't catch much (hardly anything at all) since so much goes on.
  
  People DO get handed out suspensions for discussing 'hetero' type stuff in chat as well. I assure you if you asked a blizzard rep they would say the same thing to those people. They just don't have a massive policing force to make sure that all their rules are followed.
  
  You know this isn't the first time Ms. Andrews ever advertised for her guild, and it's not like her GLBT guild is the only one in the game. Their stuff didn't get 'policed' either.
  
  Both are against what blizzard wants for the game, and both get delt with when people report it and they bother to take a look at it amongst the bazillion other things their understaffed GM department has to do.

  January 31, 2006

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• I agree completely
  I couldn't agree more with this poster. No one is being discriminated against, discussion of sexual orientation simply does not belong in public areas of this video game.
  
  I really wish that news.com would've done a little bit better job at presenting both sides of the issue here. Reading through the article (while it does appear attempts were made at impartiality) it definitely seems to favor the GLBT people that are complaining. I'm going to guess this is because the author is without all the information, as I can say as someone who does play this game and has kept up with the issue -- it's all over the world of warcraft community -- there are errors in their 'facts'. Specifically, the warning was issued due to messages broadcast on general channels in the game, not because of postings on some WoW site. While this may not seem important, it is something that you would really expect respected news organization such as news.com to have correct if they want to present an informative and unbiased issue and it makes you question whether or not you're being given all the information.
  
  The point is that sexual orientation has no being discussed in public channels on a video game that is rated for teens (rated for people as young as 13). It's not forcing GLBT people to 'stay in the closet' or opressing them in anyway. Blizzard (the makers of World of Warcraft) is seems to be taking the same (and very fair) method as none other than the U.S. Military.
  
  It's very simple. When you're in a situation that doesn't involve your sexual orientation in any way shape or form, i.e., video games or fighting wars, don't ask don't tell. In both cases this IS an attempt to PROTECT people from being harassed. Not to discriminate. It would be wholly unfeasible to allow people to broadcast sexual orientation everywhere and not incur harassment. There is no way Blizzard could go through punishing all the people doing the harassment as it would be rampant and many cases would go unreported. As such, I firmly believe their current policy is the appropriate one.

  January 31, 2006

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