Player Policed OOC

[Pudge]

Is it possible? Don't know how difficult it would be to implement but I thought maybe if 15 or 20 votes were cast to revoke a certain person's OOC then they'd get a 24 hour break or something. Could cast votes by /tell to a specific channel/bot/whatever. Votes would have to come from different IPs and each char over level 30 should get to vote only once every 6 hours. So if voted to mute someone i'd have to wait 6 hours before being able to vote again. (And even if I voted on a different char my IP has already voted. So I'd need to be on a different char and different IP if I wanted to vote again, even if directed at a different person.)

Person muted should have his IP, and any accounts logged into from that IP within the past 3 months, ooc revoked.

Threshold could be static or dynamic. Like you need 15 votes to get muted, or maybe it should be 15% of the players currently online. Or if a person is a repeat offender they take less votes to be made quiet. All these votes would have to be made within a specific time period, so if within two hours someone aggregated 15 votes only then would he be muted. Otherwise if it went past 2 hours, the 1st persons vote would expire and not count toward the total anymore.

All these numbers/time periods I'm just making up haven't given a lot of consideration to, just trying to get an idea out about how the community could police itself, and yet keep the system resistant to abuse.

Why revoke someone's OOC in the first place? Well even spamming doesn't get to me personally, and it is easy enough to just ignore the green text, or even /ignore a specific person, but the real problem with some of the ooc is that it discourages new players. When you get on to a new server and someone is talking in global text about fucking his dog or whatever, it kinda makes you second guess your decision to go play with these ppl. There are so many great things about having global ooc. If we could get a vote system down we wouldn't have threads created (Faerie's) about reporting players for "bad" ooc.

[heartbrand]

Yes because this would never result in the trolls of this server muting everyone in nihilum

[heartbrand]

Anyone who has ever played any game with vote kick mechanisms ever know what a trollfest it is

[Junkman]

could just add a delay per post in ooc like maybe 10 sec

or maybe something like quicker you post like if you start spaming youll get locked out of ooc for like certain amount of time just idea tho

[kaos057]

If you dont like someone's ooc /ignore them

[heartbrand]

Former senior guide heartbrand here to solve ooc. Ban slathar fecal Huggies cwall ooc privileges. Circumventing ban would result in account suspensions. Input five minute ooc delay. First warning ooc abuse is a 24 hour ooc ban. Second is a week. Third is perma. Subsequent ooc violations via circumvention result in account suspensions. Voila.

[Agatha]

u guys so dum sometimes to even think they would create even more work for themselves. l0l.

[runlvlzero]

They can give people specific privilages to moderate /ooc if /ooc is occasionally mis-moderated on occasion its not bad, is there a away to make guides with only ooc moderation power? Best solution IMO... if you need someone to police something you give them just enough power to do their job.

I'm in favor of Play Nice Police. Would give the young turds something to aspire to when they do want to troll. Working around rules creatively. At least they would need faction with the community to troll.

[Reddi who?]

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-a wise man

[Tomato King6]

not sure if srs or dum

[Pudge]

I guess if they gave specific players the ability to mute ppl that could also work. Maybe that's the simplest solution. But then you open it up to the "corrupt" accusations.

[big league chew]

ooc sux
always has

[Faerie]

Maybe we could just make a thread here, where we paste examples of players being detrimental to the ooc function for the GMs to look at. In classic EQ the players were never really given any power like this, but I don't see anything wrong with opening up the lines of communication between the players and the rule enforcers.

I'm waiting for someone with authority to respond before doing anything, but it really would be nice if something official could be done. Tons of people are warned and banned on the forums (myself included) for inappropriate behavior; where is that zeal in game?

[HappyTr33z]

tl;dr

Didn't even have to read past the subject, this would turn out horribly.

[Pokeman]

i will moderate ooc

[Shrubwise]

Any player-controlled OOC moderation would require additional coding by the server staff. Personally, I like the idea, but I don't see it happening any time soon. Their resources are probably all tied up in Velious release.

[Something'Witty]

To me this has an easy two part fix:

1) Don't feed the trolls.

2) If the starving trolls are still bothering you, put them on ignore.

[mtb tripper]

Put ooc in a second chat window by itself and name it bullshit, then you can minimize it for the time being and when you need a port or to sell something or LFG just maximize it back then rinse and repeat problem solved

[Shrubwise]

Both are viable options however muting a troll would be much more satisfactory.

[hagard]

I got the best idea, USE IGNORE, DISABLE OOC, AND IF THAT DOESNT WORK TRY A HUGE TAMPON

[Something'Witty]

Both are viable options however muting a troll would be much more satisfactory.

Sure, but muting them would just give them something else to troll about.

[Faerie]

Seems silly that players should have to place themselves at a disadvantage (ooc can be very useful) because a small minority of players abuse the channel.

[Pudge]

I don't know if half you bros are trying to troll or just completely missing the point. The reason to moderate OOC is not because I need a tampon or don't know how to /ignore. It is to prevent newcomers (who come to the server without /ignore on for anybody) from deciding this server is a cesspool. New players come to the server for nostalgia and PvP. Not to hear about dickcheese in ooc.

[Something'Witty]

I don't know if half you bros are trying to troll or just completely missing the point. The reason to moderate OOC is not because I need a tampon or don't know how to /ignore. It is to prevent newcomers (who come to the server without /ignore on for anybody) from deciding this server is a cesspool. New players come to the server for nostalgia and PvP. Not to hear about dickcheese in ooc.

You make a valid point

[r00t]

i will moderate ooc

[Shrubwise]

I don't know if half you bros are trying to troll or just completely missing the point. The reason to moderate OOC is not because I need a tampon or don't know how to /ignore. It is to prevent newcomers (who come to the server without /ignore on for anybody) from deciding this server is a cesspool. New players come to the server for nostalgia and PvP. Not to hear about dickcheese in ooc.

But the server is a cesspool. :eek: