If I see someone in trade chat selling a Jewelled Panther for 20k, while the mats alone cost more than double and he is basically selling a duped item, and I see he has no clue about the origin, I just whisper the guy, explain him why I believe it's a bad thing for the game and point out the risks. Rather than calling him out in public for idiot. And a good bunch of them understand it, which hopefully makes them aware for future items that are too cheap for being true.
= raising awareness
It would have been as simple as sending me a simple PM on this forum, explaining why you think it's bad to use 'rape' in that context. Rather than calling me out for it in public typing in capitals, projecting your morals as fact/truth. Why would one deliberately use words that will hurt someone, when that person put an effort into explain his/her reasonings? Can't guarantee that I'll never happen again, definitely not for a non native speaker who translates on the fly as he/she writes a post, influenced by both his/her native vocabulary and the foreign language one. On top of that a lot of non native English speakers are influenced for a large part by what they hear on TV, movies, shows, music and whatever else they read on the internet. I'm almost inclined to say that it's utterly disrespectful to expect non native English speakers to be able to gouge every context of a word. I truly wonder if most native English speakers are able to communicate at the same level in a foreign language as most non native English speakers communicate in English. And then imagine that you put an effort into writing proper language in that foreign language and someone all in a sudden calls you out in a dramatic way for using a word (and turns to be projecting his/her own idea about the usage of the word, rather than what a dictionary or linguists say).
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