Originally Posted by
DarknessB
Yeah, pretty sure it was the latter vs. the former honestly. At least with SC1, maps were hosted by players vs. being uploaded to Battle.net so there were no censorship restrictions whatsoever and that meant all sorts of insane shit you would never see today (for example, games with nude ASCII art, Break the Condom, Are You Gay?, Are You a Retard?, etc.). Not that those games were particularly well-thought out, but they were still funny to play once or twice. It also meant that people were able to adopt and modify maps far more easily than they can these days.