UKCT - UKCounterTerrorist

thesgl.com would really value your opinions on the following item taken from our forums. there is also a poll on the front page of our website.

I am not sure how many of you are familiar with the recent suspensions in the caleague which involved players with arguably the highest profile. The censures were brought about by what I am sure most people reading this would regard the punishment as being severe in the extreme as the offence was nothing out of the ordinary. The question is: should it have to be out of the ordinary?

I do not come into contact with such concentrated levels of bad language and racism anywhere else in either the real world or the internet as I do within the United Kingdom counterstrike community. Of particular concern to me is the speed at which the average debate plummets into abuse, foul language, sexism, homophobia and idiotic racism. On a day to day basis I am sure the majority of people are either sick of it or indifferent after being deluged by this wave of stupidity for so long.

Is it time to try and steer away from this behaviour? What we at thesgl.com propose would be a strict policy of clamping down on this problem. I�m sure that has caused a few chuckles amongst you and probably more than a few thoughts along the lines of -lol there will not be anyone left to play in the league if you do that- . Well why not? Is it really too much to ask I wonder. Since we do not believe the community is ready for a zero tolerance style ruling we are centering our policy on a points system. This has yet to be decided; however we would be looking at handing out points like a driving endorsement works. We all swear and we are not looking to stop the general language in IRC for example but when its directed in anger against others it becomes out of order within the constraint of our league. Racism, sexism and homophobia are simply unacceptable to my mind and would carry a hefty points score. Abuse towards others and admins would result in various points being endorsed against a site member. Once a player reaches a (as yet undetermined) number of points they would receive a suspension from the league.

We would not seek to enforce this system beyond our league however and it would be restricted to the league IRC rooms, private messages with thesgl.com staff, website comments and posts and on the game servers themselves. We would not enter into a situation where -tell tales- would be allowed to run amok causing trouble for people. This is a simple case of trying to keep our environment (and therefore yours) free of offensive, uneducated and unacceptable content/comments.

Perhaps you will agree and give us the go ahead to do this. Or perhaps you are happy with the way things are and wish them to stay that way. Either way let us hear what you want.