Trolls and flaming

[Xavier Antoviaque]

Hello,

For several weeks now, the boards have been polluted by huge flame threads and trolls; some of them contain useful and constructive comments, some of them don't. However, generally, the atmosphere of the forums has degraded a lot, and we're receiving more and more complaints about it.

As you may have noticed, we have tried to keep our moderation to the bare minimum until now, only closing threads when personal attacks started to show up and using the 'ban' button very rarely. We think most of the people posting here are grown up enough to moderate themselves, and a bit of yelling sometimes can be understandable - we're humans after all.

However, the current situation on the boards is starting to seriously impede constructive discussions, and some players have stopped posting on the boards or even stopped looking at them, since they don't want to be flamed or read endless troll threads. On our side, it has been increasingly difficult to gather coherent feedback from the boards, since we have to sort flames and constructive comments, and the general atmosphere of the boards do not look like the game atmosphere anymore.

So, we'll start enforcing netiquette rules more closely. Flames threads will be closed more early, and flamers/trolls will be banned from the forum for an unspecified amount of time if they keep behaving this way.

Don't misunderstand me though. This is NOT meant to stop you from giving your real thoughts or from stating that something is bad if that's what you think. We rely on these comments to improve our work. But they have to be written in a constructive and courteous way.

Please don't feed the troll.

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Xavier.

[alibasil]

*ticks the "hooray" box*

Thank god this is happening, i shudder to think what people who are interested by ryzom (but not started playing) think when they see all them complaining/whining threads!

*cheers and dances*

[amitst]

I would wish it to be enforced that posts have content instead of small things like " good call mate" and random off topic junk. Even if people are flaming I do want to know their opinions. The problem I suppose comes from the trolls that make so many identical posts...

[nillian]

Agreed, I think this is a positive step in 'cleaning up' the forums, as like you said, they have been getting quite bad of late. Hopefully the number of nooblings that got scared of by the aforementioned threads is 0. Keep up the good work

[grimjim]

What did you honestly expect though when you brought in the PvP on a more wholesale scale. Sweetness and light?

The situation in game hasn't been much better, even worse, and moderation there has been spotty and uneven.

There's a cause and effect going on and I think that needs to be acknowledged too to form a solution. Sudden and much stricter enforcement will likely increase some tensions and produce resentment towards the moderators if it is not very well handled.

[Xavier Antoviaque]

What did you honestly expect though when you brought in the PvP on a more wholesale scale. Sweetness and light?

The situation in game hasn't been much better, even worse, and moderation there has been spotty and uneven.

That's an example of the kind of tone we do not want to see on the forums anymore. Your access to the forum has been suspended.

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Xavier.

[kyesmith]

That's an example of the kind of tone we do not want to see on the forums anymore. Your access to the forum has been suspended.

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Xavier.

omg are you joking? grimjim is the voice of reason in the threads if you took a min to read them you would realise that, maybe if we had more feed back on the subjects we want anwser too this wouldnt of happened.
*awaits a similar post with my name in*

[Xavier Antoviaque]

... if you took a min to read them you would realise that ...

Please, I just said we were looking for courtesy.

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Xavier.

[sotbo]

That's an example of the kind of tone we do not want to see on the forums anymore. Your access to the forum has been suspended.

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Xavier.

I don´t believe this.

As I startet to read this thread and your post, I wantet so say: Hey, finally they are seeing the poisend atmosphere ingame and in the forum .. and then this!

Why? I just ask why?

Sotbo

[sander66]

Message from the now banned kye "-.-" : i see your plan Xavier .. ban anyone who speaks out against what you want them to think! isn't this like a dictaorship..

Fasinus - will never left kye