Offensive title?

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Why would a game titled perimeter system be offensive to some players? Yet I can title it the Same thing in Russian lol OGS is toooo woke.

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I don’t think it’s a question of wokeness (but perhaps you already knew that)

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I don’t recall exactly why I added this word to the block list, but the usage of it is why you got that message. I’ll ponder on it and remove it if I can’t remember why I did so.

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there was troll that pretended to be system message

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Ah. I was on the OP’s side at first, but this might be one of the only explanations that might lead to me agreeing with banning a certain word. ditto for “Moderator” and the like

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there is no sense to ban this word in game title
if its not possible to have separate block list for game title and nicknames, its bug

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It appears that no one took offense to the title. The block was an automatic function that was instituted some time earlier due to an unrelated event.

However, in today’s world, I wouldn’t be surprised if someone did object to “Perimeter System” as a title that intimidates. The term refers to a Soviet automated defense system that would guarantee “mutually assured destruction” (i.e., nuclear apocalypse). There is reason to believe that Russia still employs this system.

The system is a techno version of a “dead hand” bomb threat, an idea that goes back at least to Joseph Conrad’s 1907 novel, The Secret Agent.

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lmao. At that point we better ban the term “war” and “genocide” as being intimidating. I guess we can’t say Hitler started a war or committed a genocide, so the reasonable conclusion from the data that’s left is that he’s gotten an unfairly bad rap :smiley: (using synonynms of “war” and “genocide” would be clear blacklist evasion :smile:)

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You are arguing with yourself. I didn’t say I agreed with that, I just said I wouldn’t be surprised. Would you be surprised?

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No, I wouldn’t be surprised :frowning:. And I did upvote your post, indicating that I agreed with what I took to be your underlying stance

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I would be surprised if a significant number of people found it offensive, yes.

Now, if you literally meant “someone”, then no I wouldn’t be surprised, but I wouldn’t have been surprised in the past either. You’ll always find someone to be offended by anything.

I liked the reference to Joseph Conrad though.

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The word “system” shouldn’t be considered as “offensive”, but rather “deceptive”.

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