Celeste
Women and Gaming
2007-10-25 7:44 PM PDT
Anyway before I begin I'd like to say! I WON FIRST PLACE RAFFLE, I don't know how and I have never won a single thing ever like ever! Not even a cookie! I'm so happy I gave the prizes to my girlfriend ^^"
Starting, I believe a lot of good topics were brought up in this xfire debate on women and gaming. There were many nice people that always brought a nice perspective to the debate.
However the biggest topics that came up were gender and how males portray women gamers. I'll just review my thoughts and things that I did not think of during that time.
Helen Kennedy Okay as a way of kicking things off... what are the specific challenges you have faced as a player of games and as a professional?
- Celeste Men are a huge problem and can actually infringe on my gaming. Its almost as if I have to hide my gender in order for them to stop sexually harassing me.
Also I find that you get called male if you refuse to validate your gender to them, via webcam, mic, e-pic... w/e
As a professional moderator I still feel that it is a bit TOO easy to gain some positions on forums, games, life. I believe this is reflective of my gender. While I feel I am more than capable to take on any moderation task. I do not want it simply because I am female.
Helen Kennedy Do you think that most women are taken seriously as players? and if not why not? is this true of women who play games competitively?
- Celeste Unfortunately I missed this question, else I would of responded like this.
It is difficult to be taken seriously when the opposite gender tends to treat you with a handicap, free items, special treatment or treats friendship as just short step to a relationship. When you clearly aren't interested is when they begin acting like jerks.
However when you are taken seriously and you are clearly one of the top players, and your identity is not 100% certain... Then they tend to call you a guy! Ironic I find it considering most of these same males would sexually harass me...
Helen Kennedy Apocalyptica...
Moderation & Game Corruption
2007-06-16 12:16 PM PDT
Explanation Start
Corruption!
- Yes it's awful, no one likes it! It needs to die. What is this Corruption?
Well it could be staff members, it could be players/members. Either way they set an unbalance and a lack of morality where-ever they go, whether it be through hacking or favoritism, clearly it is an unwanted thing in any server.
Rules and Staff
- Staff members that go out and break the very rules they are advocating are hypocrites and should be removed from any moderation position.
These staff members can go from anywhere to giving special treatment to themselves, to others and even harassing other members for their different opinions... or even sexual harassment.
Friend to Staff 'Personal' Relations.
- This type of corruption is often very easy to spot and can cause a-lot of problems especially if someone brings that information publicly. This could actually lead to a banishment or the staff member losing their position(s).
Other types of corruption are most commonly seen in staff members of a server or servers... Generally where players/members get away with just about everything simply because they are friends or friends of friends with the staff member that is administering punishment.
Whether it be hacking, bug exploitation, harassment, discrimination, and or other players receiving special benefits. Clearly, this method of moderation favoritism needs to be put to an end ( on any server that has it ), as it has caused a lot of injustice.
The type of injustices that can follow are also unfair removal of posts, threads, unwanted threats by staff members and even the extreme ban. All for what? Simply for voicing out to the community about what was really going on?
Staff Administering Punishment
- Any staff member that uses their granted moderation abilities or even development abilities to punish players beyond what is necessary for the basics can be considered corrupt.
For example: Using abilities to publicly humiliate other members/players who...
Dire Gaming Block!
2007-05-12 5:03 PM PDT
Lately, I've been playing random games, it's hard to find anything that really comes to interest because I have a dislike for 3D games and games lacking originality... Maybe I'm just getting bored with games all together 
