s that so? We are not living in the 90's anymore. There is no hard border between what is perceived as propaganda and inquiry today
Perception does not determine what is or isn't propaganda.
Just like perception does not determine if 2+2 = 4 or not.
Perception is for subjective issues, good or bad, "fun", etc.
Someone not perceiving propaganda as such simply means they are wrong and should be taught better, if possible.
Same thing the other way around.
I can quote the definition of propaganda, if you'd like, but I fully believe in your capacity to utilize the internet.
You can try and convince me with arguments if a given game is or isn't propaganda.
But if you seriously try to argue that if something is or isn't propaganda is "up to the perceiver", you must be on some good shit.
Currently on the Codex many posts of this nature are removed and quarantined.
Good.
I've got an idea: How about we split off the politics forum into a separate site, just for those idiotic posts that now have to be manually quarantined?
Maybe it will mean a bit lesser of a moderation need, maybe some people will take the hint? Though, admittedly, that might be
"fabulously optimistic" as others have pointed out.
Are you not yourself an political actor in this thread and perhaps even perceivable as a propagandist with some agenda in mind?
I thought it was pretty obvious this was about politics in the sense of left-right, SJWs, alt-right, BLM, DRUMPF, yadda, yadda. Not "forum politics" such as this very topic.
I'm not going to do the "but first we need to define what is politics" dance with you, you'll have to look for another partner for that.
You also don't seem to be able to actually describe what politics being removed from the Codex would look like.
I wasn't aware that I needed to. It's not like I'm running the place and have to draw you some pretty, visionary outlines.
I'm just saying it would be a good move, based on other places doing the same thing - all better off for it (at least from the perspective of people there to discuss games and not politics).
Do not all writers preach in a sense, willingly or not?
No, they don't.
They either preach willingly or they are not preaching. You do not preach "by accident" or "unknowingly" if you are working on a game for months/years on end.
You either put political messaging in your games with the clear purpose of either convincing whoever consumes the product or to state that those are the "correct" opinions. Or you don't.