Well your opinion doesn’t constitute fact. If you want to accuse somebody of something so egregious, you have to prove it. Otherwise it is just defamation.
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That’s what I’ve done, scroll up. Also that’s not what the word defamation means.
You are aware they have full right to suspend you as they see fit? You agreed to this when making an account.
That said, they don’t do so unless you do break some rules.
I think you want to look over how you present your thoughts if you dont like people considering you homophobic(to the point that the company also stepped in and seemingly thought so too).
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No, it really is. And especially applicable in this case, considering the trigger happy posters.
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What trigger happy posters though? This was an instance of not one of their posts being visibly flagged/Hidden & Blizzard themselves decided that they were stepping out of line.
Defamation (sometimes known as calumny, vilification, libel, slander or traducement) is the oral or written communication of a false statement about another that unjustly harms their reputation and usually constitutes a tort or crime.
I would think unjustly accusing somebody of homophobia counts as defamation.
I never said they couldn’t. They can do what they like. That doesn’t make them correct in their judgements.
I don’t need your advice, thanks.
I think you might do though since you’re carrying on with the same things that apparantly got you on their bad side initially, without any of us needing to even step in.
Like I said, they are perfectly capable of being wrong. Which they were in accusing me of homophobia.
Personally? No, I don’t have any characters who are homophobic, and don’t plan to have any that are, especially not as a character I main in RP, but that’s my own personal choice. But as has been claimed in this thread and the last one, we’ve had characters that show some dislike of such things from people with LGBT muns behind the character, who for whatever reason have chosen to explore the opposite view point as many of us explore differing view points for other matters with my characters.
You can dislike things, yes. You can report them yes, and in some cases argue against such being played out in RP because it breaks ToS, yes. That’s a good argument. Using “there’s no canon example of it” is still a bad argument here, that’s all.
Most of the contention I see here seems to be because of bad arguments and because some people RP more potentially offensive subject matters, so clearly that means the mun must believe these views to want their characters to share them, or they must be a bad person who doesn’t care about the feelings of others, or even a bad role-player, jumping to conclusions about a person just because they have a different opinion whilst still on your side that in reality, the subject of the matter is abhorrent.
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I read finance law for a living. But I’ll humor you; for Defamation to have occured there has to be an Injurie (I do apologise if it’s poorly translated)
This basically means that my claim has to have done damage to the one I am accusing, usually financial.
So if I call his boss and talk about he’s homophobic without proof, yea that’s defamation.
If I accuse him of being homophobic, on a wow forum with no injurie. Even if I did not have stuff to back my claim, which I have provided. That’s not defamation.
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Suspending you for breaking the rules isnt accusing you of Homophobia btw.
This applies to you too.
But why thou? Because you were the one suspended and not others? That isn’t a justification, and you were supporting homophibia, thus slandering yourself, if you can’t see that, then I see no hope for you.
If you can’t bother taking friendly advice, then we won’t bother showing respect to you.
As you can see, Tehya was calling me a “local homophobe” for little more than just posting informatively in this thread.
After jumping to defend my own name they backpedalled and said Irelia was the homophobe.
Which again is a defamatory label slapped so carelessly on a person who simply “had the audacity” to theorize an arugment.
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Oh no straight white men feel victimised
Come off it lol
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I didn’t break the rules. I will repeat myself again, I have challenged their choice to suspend me because I was not in violation of their rules.
You haven’t shown much respect to me anyway. As evident by the fact you keep implying I am homophobic.
Thank the Light you’re not practicing it then.
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Defamation requires a third party. If I were to call Vixi a cake sniffer behind their back in the presence of an audience, I would be defaming Vixi. If I called Vixi a cake sniffer to their face, it would be just an insult. A terrible thing to do, but not defamation nor is it illegal.
Statement of opinion doesn’t constitute as defamation either, though prefacing something with “I think” doesn’t absolve you either if you say it in context to an audience who looks up to you and your opinion for guidance – say an authority figure.
Sure, a great amount of the reason we have homophobia in real life is because of culture and religion, which sure, don’t exist in WoW. But hatred for people doesn’t arise exclusively from these things. Heck, I knew someone who is racist against the welsh because my fiancee chose me over him.
People can hate certain groups of people for all sorts of bad reasons. It doesn’t take religion and culture for people to hate other people, they just use it to try justifying it.
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Hello, we are the audience. The RP community eager to blacklist.
And yet all those comments were addressed directly to Irelia.
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