No caps rule - What a joke.

[pkit404]

...just dont use caps? not exactly hard to comply is it?

[Keylock32]

As a person who has been in chat rooms since before HTML and when FIDO was still moving your emails(took as long as a week to send an email back then) I can tell you the only method that works well, I said well and not just works, is to allow people to block other players. Cuts back on abusive moderation. Cuts back on the need to sugar coat the chat rooms. Allows each individual the dignity to choose their own set of rules regarding what they consider to be offensive. Also allows a player to 'curtain' themselves from people they find annoying.

you CAN block other player, just like IRC when dial-up is still popular, no one even bother to type /help.

[Cully]

My understanding is that 'any' chat room on the internet considers the use of caps to be shouting at other people, and therefore rude. This isn't a rule particular to this chat and it's so easily to comply with it too.

[Balgra]

i'm just glad the game remembers you last chat room now, i used to hate seeing general chat - i would minimize it the moment i logged in.

1) there are more rule enforcers than chatters
2) people always jump on the bang wagon, it can't be left at 1 person to say something (particularily about caps etc) too many others chime in.
3) trying to adhear to a pegi-7 rating is daft in an adult game (are there any 7 year olds with the patience to play this?)


I think a lot of it stems, IMO, that community mods are a bad idea for a game you can buy in shops. (im not saying THE mods are bad, but the idea of community mods isn't good)

If people are paying for a game, they expect a level of service, that service can NEVER be given by community mods - they are simply not accountable enough, worst thing that can happen is their title taken away, rather than being sacked IRL.

generally the game is very good, but it has growing/teething problems as it becomes a retail product.


My recommendation - take a leaf from blizzards book, don't use community mods and give people an easy to use ignore list. it will quash many many more problems and perceived hierarchy of community mods. (and lack of level playing field between people who think mods in guilds will treat members disparate)

[Cully]

Balgra - in the last 2 days I've seen one 8 year old and one 11 year old join, and several members say they allow their kids to play. so yes there IS a need to keep it Pegi 7. Plus I don't think BB decided the rating. i think PEGI decided that for them so they have little choice but to adhere to the rules.

[TP_Uk]

how about when u use caps by accident for first time and without warning u get a 15 min ban is that ok or os it just a power trip by mod

[hades8840]

using caps the odd time wont result in a ban or shouldnt do

[Maaa]

I think this topic is ridiculous.
Seriously, there is no bigger or more interesting issues about this game?

[unlucky]

Practical points about using caps, say for all postings - are actually harder to read - most people actually read words by word shape recognition, hence minor spelling mistakes are easily ignored, in most places capitals are for emphasising a point / basically shouting the point. In a convo, this can actually raise the anti and get people wound up to the stage they stop being reasonable and open to comments , like calm down.

As for those moaning about being banned without warning, they should take note that many players do warn (and then get insulted by being called wannabee mods, I mean peer warnings should be more graciously accepted!), and mods DO warn before banning. Just because they don't receive an individual, named warning , shouldn't be a big issue. . .

On logging in, people should watch chat for a little while, else they might find they are jumping into the fire without looking! On the whole, while not necessarily agreeing with all the ins and outs of chat policy, I must say that the mods do, do a good job under sometimes difficult situations.

[DogPirate]

Ive been banned from chat due to my name as a MOD thought that it broke the naming policy as this game is pegi 7. Ive contacted support about name changes several times but they move as slow as a sloth, probably due to all the other silly issue that come up due to how hardcore the MODS are being. I cant use any chat functions and i cant find trades. I'm hoping that it will get the issue resolved sooner rather than later as its beginning to annoy.

Just to add i did get banned from chat by a MOD for 15 minutes for saying that i was 'pissed off' about something. I think the devs should just remove the chat from the game full stop because the amount of lolness that will occur when MODs are that strict will bring the game to its knees!