Che I totally agree. As most people know, I rarely have time to actually play Swamp so I tend to miss out on certain perspectives of the game. After reading this email I went to the server, skimmed through the chat log, and for the first time am seeing just how profane some of the chat is. I hadn't considered this, and I suppose it was naive of me to expect everyone to just automatically take the high road and keep the language appropriate for the many age groups that are likely playing. I think I'll add in some rules for the next version, so that the main channels will remain PG in nature. I also worry that the strong language will immediately turn some people off to the game.
To avoid being naive once again, should I expect some people to ignore the rules and just continue swearing in those channels? If so, then I'll need to program in some admin commands and grant those powers to a few individuals that would be willing to police the chat channels for foul language or mature content. If people are more likely to just follow the rules I set, then I won't bother with this extra work. > hey gang, > At what number of kills do you officially have a > swamp problem? 3000, 5000? > I have a really small issue that is almost certainly > just me, but was wondering if maybe anyone else was > experiencing it. > If I fire at what i perceive to be dead center, I > miss a lot, if I fire slightly to the right of what i think > is center, i have much better success. > so probably what we've got here is a > slight imbalance between my ears sensitivity wise, but > wanted to throw that out there to see if maybe others had > noticed it. > and when i say slightly, i mean very slightly, like > just a couple degrees. > one last thing here as well, some of you guys are > really going overboard with the profanity on the default > radio channel. > anyone that knows me personally knows i am not > adverse to cussing to say the least, but my concern here is > that newer players will be tuned off by the language, and > mis out on a great experience due to a few folks that feel > the need to throw an f bomb into every sentence. > without assigning moderators or putting > in word filtering in code, the only solution i see is to > assign the default channel as PG rated or whatever, with > other channels maybe being unrated for the profane amongst > us. > if Aprone wanted to get creative with this issue, he > could deduct a rep point for using carlin's 7 words, along > with a spoken warning or something, but this is more coding > on top of his already massive to do list. > ideally, the community would self regulate if aprone > felt it was a problem and let everyone know the default > channel isn't for language to make your grandma stroke out. > thoughts? > later > che --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
