Petition: Remove the Orc Rude Emote

[elvyen]

You may be getting my request confused with the ever popular video games/violence debate.

I've asked for the emote to be removed because of it's graphic sexual nature and because of the way in which it is often abused. I find it very distasteful and I'd like to see it replaced with a different rude emote that does not directly combine sex and violence. That is the request.

Here are some things I've not done:
1: I've not claimed that people who use the emote are bad people.
2: I've not made any connections between in game behavior and the real world.
3: I've not indicated that I'm upset, mentally distressed, or tramautized by the emote.
4: I've not threated to rage quit, start legal action, or engage in terrorist activities.
5: I've not said or done anything that threatens people's rights as protected on the US Constitution.
6: I've not issued a complaint, rather a request as is appropriate for this board.

If people want to pull the real world into the debate or engage in fantasies about my mental condition that is their prerogative.
Despite the numerous read herrings the request is now, and will always be, the expression of a preference.
Anyone who wants to make it more than that is on their own.

I consider your position a little ...off in a couple ways.

1.) It seems to me you are not making a simple, benign statement of opinion.

You titled your thread a petition. Why?
Many might see that as an attempt to gather sufficient /signed support and concensus to cause the action to be taken.

Can you see how people may understandably feel threatened by that?, people who may not share your views; people who may feel that the removal of the emote would be a unnecessary, unreasonable action to take.

2.) I almost see the position that you have oft restated here as hyperbole.
To repeatedly, definitively condemn a simple animation as only an explicit reference to sexual violence seems a bit ...unreasonable.
Again, I think language like that is a bit too strong to qualify as a simple harmless statement of your opinion.
It might almost have an accusatory tone.
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As i stated in my earlier post in this thread, some may view this emote purely as an irreverent, rude, orc-ish taunt to one's enemies, that fits what they see as the personality of their orc character (akin to the offensive crudity displayed by the orcs in the novels).---

Again, I think the fault in this particular instance may lie in the individual's actions, not the emote's existence.

This person made sure to simulate a forced, sexual humiliation?
Yeah, understandably offensive. (In my opinion, it crossed the line.)
So, get a screen of it, and report it. It could be decided that it was a violation of the CoC.
Yeah folks do stuff like that all the time, as people have said here, but who knows where the devs might draw the lines. We're under their laws here, via the CoC.

But dont start petitions and try to take away people's in-game options because of your opinion, or because of one persons misuse of an emote.