Oh great.
We are still talking about heavily moderated chat in a game about war and death.
Still voting no on this horrible idea.
Link please? Plenty of places use volunteer moderation without getting sued.
Just gonna drop this here, as your CS thread was locked before I had the opportunity.
No one’s talking about heavy moderation. Just the existence of moderation is needed.
The fact that the game is a fantasy game where people fight monstrous creatures and death is impermanent has no bearing whatsoever as to whether people should be able to spew “jokes” about atrocities and other such.
I can still joke about Teldrassil right?
You left out the part we’re we literally try to kill other players.
The special words we have created for murdering helpless players that can’t fight back
This is a game about War.
I’d suggest a thicker skin. I dislike a lot of what people say but I’m not going to cry about it.
I’ll challenge their idiotic ideas if I feel the need or ignore them (via simply not saying anything) if I don’t.
Constant outrage is unproductive and silly though.
Right. Did you read this part?
The plaintiffs specifically demonstrated how Community Leaders had to undergo a thorough, 3-month training program and were required to file timecards for shifts, work at least four hours per week, and submit detailed reports outlining their work activity during each shift.
Volunteer moderators aren’t automatically going to cause problems like this. Treating volunteers like employees absolutely will.
I am not a murderer.
I just assist in the transportation of souls to the Shadowlands. Sometimes forcibly.
Are you new to the internet?
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go right ahead.
but expect to be… flamed.
(i’ll see myself out)
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No one says you should be able to joke about that.
And if you report a person, they will get in trouble for it.
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You mean all those things people already get silenced and banned for?
Moderation already exists. You are asking for heavy moderation…the kind that drives players away
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And yet still occur regularly and frequently. Hence my assertion that the reporting system is insufficient.
Well. In my experience most people don’t report.
My experience also is that a volunteer mod system is more insufficient.
That’s some industrial-strength pearl-clutching.
That’s my experience too. Because there are no apparent results of reporting. You report, nothing changes, you eventually stop reporting.
If a report would summon a GM to actually engage in the chat, more people would report, and fewer reports would ultimately be required because others would see that someone is watching.
Half the reason all this vile crap gets spewed all over is the belief that no one is watching and no one will address egregious behaviour.
How do you know nothing changes?
Do you keep track of every single person you report, to see if those same names show up again?
Why would a GM engage in the chat?
Because I play the game and chat is getting worse, not better.
Scroll through the Customer Support forum and read some of the threads from people salty and bitter about being silenced for inappropriate chat. Someone linked several in your CS thread the other day, you even acknowledged them.
Tell us again how reporting is ineffectual and nothing is being done about in-game toxicity.
The fact that some people get punished does not change the fact that chat is getting worse. Therefore, reporting is insufficient.
I did not say ineffectual, I said insufficient. The former means it doesn’t work, the latter means it doesn’t work enough.
Thats not how facts work.