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The Flying Sloth 22 Oct, 2015 @ 3:23pm
Review of the use of the term 'cancer'
Hi guys,

I've made a couple of successful reports on outpost about the use of the term 'cancer' to describe items. Not only did my father die 2 months ago due to rapid stage 3 cancer, many of my friends have similar stories. We all find it highly irritating and offensive when users describe items as being 'cancer' items. Using the term is insensitive to the families and friends of people who have gone through serious trauma and honestly I do not believe the word has a place in our child friendly community. I do understand that the term is used to describe rubbish items but really it is just easier and less offensive to call them bad items. I am a reasonably experienced trader and the word just is not fitting of the fine people of the TF2 and CS:GO communities.

Can the admin team please review the use of this term as it is not a friendly term and it really is not acceptable.

Sincerely
The Flying Sloth
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[FOC]=PHOENIX= 22 Oct, 2015 @ 10:52pm 
I know where yor comming from and i have found the term isnt used much anymore
and prob should not be used to say its a unliked item...........shit is a easy word >:-)
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ABI TALENT 23 Oct, 2015 @ 5:48am 
You can always make a userstyle for this kind of stuff.
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illusion ~ Forever Mirin 23 Oct, 2015 @ 2:32pm 
sorry to hear about that fam i always use that word in my every day life i guess i will try to stop your right tho should be banned good luck :)
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The Flying Sloth 24 Oct, 2015 @ 5:33am 
Originally posted by Feesh-E:
You can always make a userstyle for this kind of stuff.
What does this mean?

I will assume it means that my browser or such will edit the word for me?

What if I want to research new cancer drugs?

What if this isn't just about outpost, it's about the entire TF2 community and in-game use of the word aswell. But thankyou for the support guys, hopefully something good comes from this.
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❤Lady❤Drug❤ 24 Oct, 2015 @ 9:10am 
I will start off by saying this, I do not care for the term myself, and have had family that has dealt with this issue. Unfortunately as bad as it sounds I do not think they would be able to categorize this as something for offense to close a trade or ban someone. If that were the case they would have to start taking words from everyone that offend people.
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Umi 24 Oct, 2015 @ 9:22am 
Originally posted by The Flying Sloth:
I do not believe the word has a place in our child friendly community

>child friendly
>m rated
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AFFIRMATIVE 24 Oct, 2015 @ 9:25am 
Originally posted by The Flying Sloth:
and honestly I do not believe the word has a place in our child friendly community.

I don't think you spent any time on this "child friendly" community for the fact that you are calling it that. Calling shitty virtual items "cancer" is the least of the problems that people do and say in here.

One of my family members died of cancer and even i think you are overexaggerating.

You really think people in this world will consider cancer a trivial problem just for the fact that a community from a game is using it mildly to describe shitty items?

If that's the case, then the same level of complaint would be used by religious people for your avatar for insulting the pope for replacing him with a sloth.

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ABI TALENT 24 Oct, 2015 @ 9:57am 
Originally posted by The Flying Sloth:
What if I want to research new cancer drugs?

What if this isn't just about outpost, it's about the entire TF2 community and in-game use of the word aswell.What if I want to research new cancer drugs?
Userstyles are themes for websites. Userstyles empower your browsing experience by letting you customize websites. Take out irrelevant content, change colors, or completely redesign the entire site.

That is perfectly possible, userstyles are extremely customizable and they don't necessarily apply to every website. Just do some research on how to create a simple userstyle, I am sure that you will find what you are looking for.
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Toughsox 24 Oct, 2015 @ 10:01am 
Cancer affects everyone eventually, either with themselves, their immediate family or people they know. The sad truth is, as bad as the images are associated with that word, we simply can not just ban/take action against a person for using it. If so, then we become the Internet Word Police.

There are a great many words that, depending on how they are used, could offend many people and at the same time, bring a smile to others. Thus, each report we are handed are dealt with individually. Personally, I dislike the word too, but being the year 2015, it appears you can say just about anything and offend at least some one depending on their values and point of view.

We handle every report on a case by case basis, and should a person use it in a threatening or disparaging way, then action is definitely taken by our Staff.

Sloth, you have my sympathy for your father as I lost my mother the same way over 35 years ago.
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