Someone want to explain to me what the petaq these are/do, so i can figure out what im going to want to get.

I have a feeling twitter will just in certain regions ban certain hashtags like most other internet companies have to do in the middle east. Murder death hate speech is apparently not free speech in France.

The organisation is very much real:
http://dayagainsthomophobia.org/

I hope they lose their lawsuit, because if they win what's to stop a government in a region that really DOES kill gays from suing to get the membership information of everyone using a hashtag connected with our community?

Of course hopefully this is just a joke since the groups name is...well...

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Pretty much says it all for me. :)

I found this article in the Advocate that I thought was just wow. I understand that people have the right to speak their mind, but come on this is promoting hate on a global scale. I'm not a Twitter user, but I am sure that there is codes of conduct that Twitter goes by about what can be posted.

I found this article in the Advocate.

LGBT Group Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Antigay Hashtag
A French pro-LGBT group is planning a lawsuit after the hashtag “gays must die” became the most popular topic to trend on the social media site over the weekend.

Over the weekend, the hashtag “gays must die” become the most popular topic to trend on Twitter in France, prompting an LGBT rights organization to announce it plans to sue the social media website, reports UPI.

Because the hashtag allegedly violates hate speech laws in the country, the pro-LGBT group known as the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, or IDAHO, says its members will sue Twitter to release information on users of the hashtag to authorities to be investigated.

"We support free expression, and we understand that there are some people who simply don't like gay people, but this is a call for the extermination of the gay community," IDAHO member Alexander Marcel told UPI. "Twitter hasn't deleted a single homophobic tweet nor removed a single homophobic hashtag from its list of most popular trending terms."

In addition to #gaysmustdie, #TeamHomophobes and #LetsBurnGayPeople were also popular hashtags that gained traction in France over the weekend.

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Wow Wayward! A lot of the stuff you listen to matches my tastes. I don't include most of it in the mix due to special tastes, but we could start picking nights for certain music genres.

Thanks for posting this!

Who the hell greenlighted that card? I admit, one of the ways I kill time is looking at the myriad corny cards in drug stores. This looks like it was intended to be one of those 'non-event specific' dumb joke cards, but instead we're treated to Trans*bashing, complete with a hateful slur. Ugh. If someone gave me that card I'd give them a speech so long that Captain Picard would think it was too much.

I love that fight scene its so bad its brilliant :D

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Sooooo.... there is not going to be a cagematch fight, then?

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Damn it then what the hell am I s'pose to do with all these...RAFFLE WE'LL DO A RAFFLE!

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Sooooo.... there is not going to be a cagematch fight, then?

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I don't think anyone's rep has been hurt. You are both amazing guys and will get over this lil hump in a blast of Phaser fire (aimed at the borg). The lesson here is to communicate and for that we have an amazing tool called Vent. I suggest, even if you don't speak, you set it up to listen. It can be very difficult to type out messages during an STF, that 's how communication breaks down. I'll roll with all y'all anytime!

Now group hug everyone! (points at Eurrsk to start)

Thanks for the offers lads, and I deffo will take you up on them! whoop!

As my first post said.. I know how to do them, Ozy and Ryan made sure of that.
and I do them a more than a few times a night... :p (but I can always learn more)
The Ground I stay away from :p so ill need help there.

I fear the original message that I was hoping to get across has been lost. I was not aiming at anyone, it was merely an example of what i experienced. and if any of the new members needed help.

but All of your responses have proved that we all have each others backs. whoop!

now time to rebuild my looser reputation! lol :woohoo:

This truly does seem to be just a bad case of missed-communications. I'm notorious for missing tells and even I was a bit confused when Meta instructed us to use this particular tactic a couple of days ago but it did end up working.

I don't think it was anything intentional and I'm so sorry if you were in any way made to feel self-concious, Gareth. I know what a sweet and kind person you are.

Ooops, gotta fly, I'm at Las Vegas airport and it appears my flight back to LA is is boarding 10 minutes early. Darn and here I thought I could get in a Breen daily or two. B)

Hey, in the end, we're here to pew pew, have fun, and hopefully learn how to become better STF'ers from the experiences of each other. We all have something to bring when it comes to defeating the borg. Miscommunications happen, but we learn from our mistakes, try our best, and keep trekkin' on. B)

It's great to see so many fleetmates willing to assist and team up with ya! Just remember, you're in good company. :)

Gareth. *BIG HUGS* :)
Bao. *BIG HUGS* :)

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I host that STF, and I feel like you're over reacting blowing the whole thing out of proportion. And you make it like I was the one who blew up about the stf. I wouldn't even do that if we failed the mission. But we didn't. We even got the optional. So...

1.) I did not ignore you. I responded to your tells, if I did not respond to something, it was because I'm not the most diligent person when it comes to tells. So don't take that personally. I do that to people whom I play with everyday.

2.) Per our conversation, I told you the strategy wasn't one used normally. I mean it wasn't ok for people to just sit there. But it wasn't a normal strategy either. We lacked a confident kang so I laid out what my strategy PRIOR to starting which involved teams and people killing their own bops. And in the middle of the stf, I saw that you were just sitting there and asked you about it in team chat, and you didn't respond. I was not rude or abusive. It's pretty common for people to leech or not do well. Even fleeties are sometimes are as bad as pugs. And all I did was point it out so that it can be rectified.

3.) I'm more then happy to offer advice on sto shit. But you didn't ask for any.

If anythin, I am was less patient typing this response out then about the stf

Thats fine, but I wasn't just sitting there/leeching I can VERY much assure you. I fended off quite a few incoming and repaired kang as standard... which i was told to do.
I did ask what you intended for me to do during game chat and later in a tell, twice including on the public fleet chat.

again im sorry if you didn't see those messages.

and please bare in mind this is not aimed at you, Im not here for arguments, im in this game to relax and have fun.. im the friendliest politest person you could meet. and I apologuise once again, as i did yesterday if I have offended of Pee'd off anyone.
this post is just an observation on how we can all help each other out in this "game".

Thanks Geo, Colby, Andrew, Parker, Zander, Travis, Dave

It sounds as though there's been some miscommunication between both parties that has lead to some hard feelings here. I can speak with confidence when I say that we all encourage you both attempt to resolve whatever miscommunication took place, as we truly strive to maintain a friendly and compassionate, family-feeling environment here in Stonewall :) The appropriate forum for that conversation is likely through a private chat, either in-game or through messages through the site.

We're a family here, and all come to the Stonewall community with a unique commonality that binds us all together. I would hope that within that commonality, we can find the understanding needed to resolve situations like this without incident.

Feel free to reach out to the leadership team, should all other attempts to resolve this issue fail, but I feel and hope that this is something both of you can likely resolve relatively easily.

Cheers both :)
Dave.

**Eurrsk - queue group hugs!