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This evening, i decided to join the GR-irc channel, the staff is spending a lot of time on their promotional campain, so i thought: let's try to help them achieve their goals. I joined the chat and the first thing i saw was someone named <Gurly|aids>, also , there was a conversation about aids going on. No, not a decent discussion or something.... Some people were making fun of it. Even after I told that a friend of mine has HIV, they continued the jokes, and even started joking about him. At a certain moment I just decided to ignore them and left for a couple of minutes, when I came back, the first sentence I saw was one containing the word kanker (which is dutch for cancer), the disease my grandmother died of.


After that i also received a pm containing the following

I decided to leave the chat, and I don't think i'll be back soon. If you want to attract people to the chat, I think you first have to prevent conversations like this, just wanted to let you know.

 

During the time, there was a lack of staff present.
Either way, your right, we'll start cracking down on it depending on other staff members.

 

Frontmill i totally agree with you and will be something the staff will be looking into.
Thanks

 

The name Gurly|aids was there for a long time there was also Kirbir|aids, and gurly and kirbir were there themselves and didn't have a problem with it, gurly also was joking about that she had aids etc.

 

painore you was that

 

I was girly|aids, girly knew I was it, she is mod so she could have easily banned be but she didnt care so?>

 

gurly and cast were joking about it 2 days ago, and it was done.

 

hm joking around with HIV/Aids is not fun especially if the member knows someone who has suffered from it ... If i find anyone doing this again im taking you to the pits

she didnt care but i care since the frontmill was clearly upset by it

Im sorry frontmill on behalf of irc I hope you try and come again ... all who abuse and joke around with these kind of issues will get banned

 

That was actualy a PM, so technically.. there was nothing we could've done to prevent it. We do welcome you back though, just a rough start is all..

 

The PM was after the conversation that happened in the channel ... i dont care what anyone says if i see a member upset by something abusive i will take action They just need to PM me or the staff

 

Thank you

 

frontmill, we waren mer wat aant klote hoor.. weet niet of je er later bij was maar we hebben ook nog phenom zitten irriteren, we waren al de hele tijd bezig ook toen kirbir en gurly er nog bij waren, was neit persoonlijk ofzo

for staff that doesnt speak dutch, ^^ A kind of apology in dutch

 

Hm yeah if a member was offended by it, it should have stoped. Also just as a side note, kanker in english, is just a kanker sore, so thats not something we can really prohibit people from saying.

 

just to inform US people etc, in dutch, the word 'kanker' is almost said by all younger people.

It indeed means cancer, and you can use it to express yourself better/intenser..

so if you would say:

Ik ben kanker boos (english: i'm cancer angry)

just means that you are really mad, but some people are being offended by it.

 

i think this is bs man.. First u guys were like LULZ LAL. but now you guys are like uber mods, u could have just said it at the first time.