To that, I'd like to add the following: this applies to you, too, moderators. You need better judgment when deciding to lock a topic. Not every topic that talks about racism goes against the forum rules and policies. Incidentally, you could stand to make the forum rules and policies a little easier to find. I spent five minutes trying to find them and came up empty. Whenever you close a topic, consider linking to the rules you keep referencing.Jolikmc wrote: ↑Fri Oct 27, 2023 5:24 amIt's an indisputable fact that when Blizzard stupidly shut down operations in China, a lot of Chinese players still wanted to play World of Warcraft and flocked to Turtle WoW. It's also indisputable, as well as proven, that once Chinese players started playing here, the server started to see a lot more problems, such as resource nodes becoming almost impossible to find and communication breakdowns between players. These statements, in and of themselves, are not "racist". However, the problem isn't limited to any specific region.
Turtle WoW was simply not prepared for the influx of users and scrambled to find solutions – which included limiting traffic from China, for a bit, because that's where the most players were coming from. While that might sound "racist", I'd like to point out that it could have been players from China, or it could have been players from Venezuela, and the end result would have been the same – overpopulation and stretched resources leading to Turtle Team putting a (very poorly implemented) "traffic limiter" on that region.
Turtle Team has never been anti-Chinese. If anything, I'd like to think that Turtle Team has been extremely kind and generous to the Chinese players, in particular, even going as far as to strike up a deal with some people to try and get a Chinese server up. That server apparently sucks due to corruption and bootlegging of content, but the thought was there. Inversely, however, there actually is a lot of "anti-Chinese" sentiment on these forums, whether it be intentional (shame on you) or incidental (shame on you).
A lot of people are pretty stupid about how they phrase things. Instead of saying something well-thought, most people end up saying things like "remove China" or "I hate Chinese players". Some players may actually mean this exactly as stated. However, most people are just idiots who won't or can't use their words better. And, that's what I meant by "incidental anti-Chinese sentiment".
For those who are guilty of "anti-Chinese rhetoric": the next time you're about to say something against an entire region of players, do bear in mind that unquantified statements may make you appear ignorant and angry. Angry, you may be, but I'd like to think that at least some of you aren't as ignorant as you appear to be.
Choose your words more carefully.
Thank you,
J