Halo 4 permaban for sexism

[eliasfrost]

Yes, if you base your points on the premise that woman are getting these type of messages from other gamers, then I'd very much agree with you! All those are very much punishable offenses, and definitely not jokes (Unless of course it's presented in an obviously joking manner)

What I think your mistake here is is that you seem to be over-looking that most of us are just skeptical whether the rule will be over-extended into simple trash-talk as well, just because a female gamer couldn't take a harmless joke/trashtalk that meant no harm. THAT would be misusing the rule.

As I said, I agree that there's a line between joke and insult. The point I am making is that the magnitude of cases where people get offended is larger than the cases where people take it as a joke (and most of the times they just don't have the courage to stand up, or that they are in fact guys), and that is the core of the problem, people get offended, especially women, there's no question about that.

And I can see your point that the "problem" where people get banned because they "trashtalk", while in fact they shouldn't have opened their mouth in the first place. Want to trash talk? Then keep that to tournaments where's it's been allowed by policy, but for the sake of everyone, don't insult people (joke or not) over the internet where there are strangers and you never know who will get offended or who will shrug it off. It's not hard to just be nice. And if you get banned because you insulted someone (even if it was intended as a joke) then the joke's on you, you should've known better.

You're really passionate about this, aren't you nackidno?

Off course I am, and I'm proud of it!