New Rule: Replace the Word "Lynch" in Games

[Errantparabola]

I've literally never heard the word "chink" used as anything other than to refer to a flaw in someone's armor.

r u asian

[Errantparabola]

has anyone suggested "guillotine"

[Creature]

For mods: you must use a verb or noun other than "lynch" for your rules and for moderator communications. If it is in your current ruleset, change it.

I'd open an exception for games with direct medieval/Salem flavor.

[Enter]

Enter you just cancelled a game over this thread I'm actually a bit amused.

There are certain toxic mindsets held by people on this site that thankfully keep to politics and the speak easy. I avoid those places and stick to playing mafia (which is the only reason I'm really here anyways) and everything is fine. Once it starts leaking into mafia, however, I'm just not interested in participating.

[Enter]

I've literally never heard the word "chink" used as anything other than to refer to a flaw in someone's armor.

r u asian

No. But my high school/middle school was ~30% asian.

[Umlaut]

I'm going with "launch"

[Enter]

For mods: you must use a verb or noun other than "lynch" for your rules and for moderator communications. If it is in your current ruleset, change it.

I'd open an exception for games with direct medieval/Salem flavor.

Or pirates. Or wild west. Turns out "lynching" was used for a lot of things that had nothing to do with race.

[Who]

has anyone suggested "guillotine"

I came here to say this but you beat me to it.

[Errantparabola]

sounds like theres a reason no ones called u a chink before

[TemporalLich]

Am I still allowed to use L-X as a moderator? Another mafia site is keeping L-X as the term even though they officially use Eliminate (shortened to lim there) now.

[HoldenGolden]

has anyone suggested "guillotine"

I did. See first page; (any change is fine. There has not been a site wide set replacement).

I also like "erased" thanos style.

[T-Bone]

I'm going with "launch"

I endorse this service and/or product.

[Errantparabola]

has anyone suggested "guillotine"

I came here to say this but you beat me to it.

I got a head of you



No.... thats not good......

[Nahdia]

yall, there are some seriously disappointing takes here.

Caring about not making people uncomfortable or hurting them is never a bad thing. Filtering ourselves to be a more inclusive, welcoming community isn't hard.

This isn't censorship, this is kindness.

[T-Bone]

Am I still allowed to use L-X as a moderator? Another mafia site is keeping L-X as the term even though they officially use Eliminate (shortened to lim there) now.

(you can certainly continue to take the L if you wish)

Yeah that's fine. We did make it E-X in the Newbie queue, but you do you.

[Enter]

sounds like theres a reason no ones called u a chink before

Turns out I wasn't talking about not being called one. This doesn't explain why I haven't heard anyone say it about my best friends. This doesn't provide any support for the argument that using the word for it's original intended use is in any way prejudiced or discriminatory, which is the original point I was making. Just saying I haven't heard it used as a slur before this site.

[TemporalLich]

I'd prefer to be consistent, so if it's E-X now it is E-X now for me

[N]

problem with guillotine is it's hard to spell

[GeorgeBailey]

We have to change it to nae nae.

[Ginngie]

This doesn't explain why I haven't heard anyone say it about my best friends.

allow my family to introduce themselves

[Something_Smart]

Yeah that's fine. We did make it E-X in the Newbie queue, but you do you.

I feel like an official sitewide stance on this would be better, if only because new people are either going to be confused about why there are two different terms for it, or they'll figure it out and then probably have an uninformed opinion on it.

That said, I also think L-X is better because it is standard and sounds nicer and is justifiable as L being short for eliminate. But of course if an official announcement suggested E-X I would use that for consistency's sake.

[Creature]

Let's just use "mobkill" and replace modkill with something else like hostkill

[Menalque]

I think this is ultimately a good change, and also an easy one for us to make.

[Errantparabola]

ive never been to australia before but as it so happens, it still exists

[Menalque]

I will be using the flavour “guillotined”’ in any games I may run in the future