The past few weeks have been difficult, painful, and eye-opening for the gaming community. It’s easy to want to avoid discussing subjects like abuse, discrimination and mental health struggles—after all, we play games to have fun—but for gaming culture to become healthier and more inclusive, we all have to reflect on the uncomfortable issues facing us and put in effort to improve.
Why do we need a Code of Conduct? Shouldn’t “don’t be a shitty person” just be self-explanatory? Unfortunately that statement, left to interpretation, is simply too ambiguous. How can we reasonably enforce something so loosely defined? Previously, we had some basic internal rules in place concerning matters like discrimination and harrassment, but everyone outside our community had no idea how we dealt with such behavior.
We’re solving that today.
Our approach to addressing systemic issues in the gaming community and World of Warcraft is firmly rooted in...
Continue…