nakamuram opened this issue on May 21, 2003 ยท 81 posts
FyreSpiryt posted Thu, 22 May 2003 at 6:35 AM
If I may? Deep breath everyone.
If this was intended as a racial slur, then the item should be pulled and xadmax2 should be banned. An official warning at the very least, but I think banning would be more appropriate.
HOWEVER, let's give sa the benefit of a doubt first. Note the misspelling of the word skull (as skrul) in another of his freebies. We are all human, and we all make mistakes. I can only imagine what I could get myself into if I tried to post something in Spanish or Japanese; I know just enough of either language to get myself in serious trouble.
I think the appropriate action would be to IM xadmax2 and an admin, informing them both that this is not appropriate. There's little to suggest that sa regularly comes to this forum, so demanding your apology here is pointless; demand it of him. If you feel others should be alerted, that's fine. Many of us, especially in an international community, are still trying to figure out what is and is not acceptable. Again, I can only imagine what kinds of trouble I could get myself into on a Japanese board. But I think it would work better to keep the complaint separate from the enlightenment, or some will feel that they are the target of both and react accordingly.