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posted by Chris on September 24, 2008 8:37 AM in Geek Culture

Great little segment from Current featuring good friend of the site Mister Flynn DeMarco. Flynn discusses internet anonymity, online gay bashing and attacks on his own community. An interesting and very well-made mini-documentary shedding some light on the big pink homophobic elephant in the room. People on the internet are often jerks, but sometimes we can band together to provide safe spaces for people and build genuinely positive communities.

Of course this brings up a larger topic in my mind: what can we sane, intelligent, tolerant people do to help influence a change in the way people treat others online, specifically over Xbox Live? How do we show the people spouting hate speech that they are genuinely hurting people with what they say, and do they even care?

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Victor says:

posted September 24, 2008 10:31 AM

I usually end up muting/submitting review when a person gets on my nerves. I'm an easygoing person however so I usually don't let things get under my skin. When I let my friends use my accounts I tell them that I don't want they trash talking or team killing either... or some other form of player abuse.

Seriously, I love the submit review system.

iNerd says:

posted September 24, 2008 11:22 AM

Thanks for this, nice to see a little well thought out content on the net about a real problem. I do hope that it makes a difference to some of the jerks who still think that being horribly homophobic is acceptable.

I think that the only way you can really change online communities is by actively participating in them, if you block yourself off from it because of a small percentage of the users being idiots you're making it a worse place for others who might be in your position. If you can rase issues and let people know when they cross boundaries that should not be tolerated there is just a slim chance that they might start to realise what it means.

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