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Howdy,
This here will be my 2 cents worth. Lets start with the textbook definition:
1. Lynching, as a form of punishment for presumed criminal offenses, performed by self-appointed commissions, mobs, or vigilantes without due process of law took place in the United States before the American Civil War and after across the nation, from southern states to western frontier settlements.
2. In the South, members of the abolitionist movement or other people opposing slavery were usually targets of lynch mob violence before the Civil War.After the war, southern whites used lynching to terrorize and intimidate freed blacks who were voting and assuming political power. A study of the period of 1868 to 1871 estimates that the Ku Klux Klan was involved in more than 400 lynchings.
(This statement lends some credit to Celc Festus' statement) However...
3. Not all lynchings in the United States were targeted against African Americans and committed by the Ku Klux Klan. In 1868, 10 members of the Reno Gang, all Caucasian and between 20 and 30 years of age, were lynched on three separate occasions by vigilante mobs in Southern Indiana.
In Europe early examples of a similar phenomenon are found in the proceedings of the Vehmgerichte in medieval Germany, and of Lydford law, gibbet law or Halifax law in England and Cowper justice and Jeddart justice in Scotland.
There are also some personal accounts of lynching in Budapest, Hungary, during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution against the occupying Soviets.
On November 23, 2004, in the Tlahuac lynching, three Mexican undercover federal agents doing a narcotics investigation were lynched in the town of San Juan Ixtayopan (Mexico City) by an angry crowd who saw them taking photographs and mistakenly suspected they were trying to abduct children from a primary school.
According to an Amnesty International report, lynchings of Haitians and Dominicans accused of various crimes, ranging from theft to murder, have continued to occur as late as 2006.
In India, lynchings generally reflect tensions between numerous ethnic groups and castes in the country. Typically, lynchings involve upper-caste members attacking lower caste members.
So lynching is an act of violence against another person or persons by many others. It did gain notoriety by the KKK, however in addition to the above...
There were the Salem witch trials: The two courts convicted twenty-nine people of the capital felony of witchcraft. Nineteen of the accused, fourteen women and five men, were hanged.
If you are a fan of the west, you may have seen Hang Em High, a Clint Eastwood movie: A band of vigilantes catch Jed Cooper and, incorrectly believing him guilty of cattle rustling and murder, hang him and leave him for dead.
And so on... BUT enough of the history lesson, you can read for yourselves. Lets look at this topic as the thread is meant, from the point of view of the game.
The game is meant to be fun and to ATTRACT players. Whereas some might deem it fun to lynch someone, the recipient may not feel the same way. People were lynched against their will (no point otherwise) and that would lend to realism in-game, but even though the player may not be killed it could lend to bad feelings. This, like many things, could be useful in lending to a certain amount of realism, but would it be practical if abused as is more often than not the case by those that think such antics fun. I used to play Dark Throne and another MMORPG, both fun games for the most, but when players were "massed" (mass attacked) by others just to try to ruin their game or because they though it fun to "gang up" on someone it tainted the whole experience.
I am neither for nor against at the moment. It would be up to the developers to decide. What is needed is constructive ideas on how to make it workable and have a purpose.
Perhaps as opposed to a lynching within the game, a spam type thread for virtual lynching might be more useful.
Just food for thought and my 2 cents.
Now for a cold beer.
This here will be my 2 cents worth. Lets start with the textbook definition:
1. Lynching, as a form of punishment for presumed criminal offenses, performed by self-appointed commissions, mobs, or vigilantes without due process of law took place in the United States before the American Civil War and after across the nation, from southern states to western frontier settlements.
2. In the South, members of the abolitionist movement or other people opposing slavery were usually targets of lynch mob violence before the Civil War.After the war, southern whites used lynching to terrorize and intimidate freed blacks who were voting and assuming political power. A study of the period of 1868 to 1871 estimates that the Ku Klux Klan was involved in more than 400 lynchings.
(This statement lends some credit to Celc Festus' statement) However...
3. Not all lynchings in the United States were targeted against African Americans and committed by the Ku Klux Klan. In 1868, 10 members of the Reno Gang, all Caucasian and between 20 and 30 years of age, were lynched on three separate occasions by vigilante mobs in Southern Indiana.
In Europe early examples of a similar phenomenon are found in the proceedings of the Vehmgerichte in medieval Germany, and of Lydford law, gibbet law or Halifax law in England and Cowper justice and Jeddart justice in Scotland.
There are also some personal accounts of lynching in Budapest, Hungary, during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution against the occupying Soviets.
On November 23, 2004, in the Tlahuac lynching, three Mexican undercover federal agents doing a narcotics investigation were lynched in the town of San Juan Ixtayopan (Mexico City) by an angry crowd who saw them taking photographs and mistakenly suspected they were trying to abduct children from a primary school.
According to an Amnesty International report, lynchings of Haitians and Dominicans accused of various crimes, ranging from theft to murder, have continued to occur as late as 2006.
In India, lynchings generally reflect tensions between numerous ethnic groups and castes in the country. Typically, lynchings involve upper-caste members attacking lower caste members.
So lynching is an act of violence against another person or persons by many others. It did gain notoriety by the KKK, however in addition to the above...
There were the Salem witch trials: The two courts convicted twenty-nine people of the capital felony of witchcraft. Nineteen of the accused, fourteen women and five men, were hanged.
If you are a fan of the west, you may have seen Hang Em High, a Clint Eastwood movie: A band of vigilantes catch Jed Cooper and, incorrectly believing him guilty of cattle rustling and murder, hang him and leave him for dead.
And so on... BUT enough of the history lesson, you can read for yourselves. Lets look at this topic as the thread is meant, from the point of view of the game.
The game is meant to be fun and to ATTRACT players. Whereas some might deem it fun to lynch someone, the recipient may not feel the same way. People were lynched against their will (no point otherwise) and that would lend to realism in-game, but even though the player may not be killed it could lend to bad feelings. This, like many things, could be useful in lending to a certain amount of realism, but would it be practical if abused as is more often than not the case by those that think such antics fun. I used to play Dark Throne and another MMORPG, both fun games for the most, but when players were "massed" (mass attacked) by others just to try to ruin their game or because they though it fun to "gang up" on someone it tainted the whole experience.
I am neither for nor against at the moment. It would be up to the developers to decide. What is needed is constructive ideas on how to make it workable and have a purpose.
Perhaps as opposed to a lynching within the game, a spam type thread for virtual lynching might be more useful.
Just food for thought and my 2 cents.
Now for a cold beer.
