Hanazava Karyna
The Foundation Of Mammon
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Posted - 2014.09.29 16:11:00 -
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Oh my, this thread escalated faster than I thought.
Well, it's bad move from CCP that they made such a grave change without even consulting it with players nor CMS.
No information in changelog (as if someone without decent English skill would read changelog anyway...), few days to next expansion that sets everything in stone, no information in soon-to-be deleted channels; everything sounds just pretty sneaky to me.
CCP has, for sure, no resources to deal with monitoring every available language chat channel, most of them are dead anyway.
For moment I though `Damn, it's good change after all; if there is so much trolling on language channels where newbies gather en masse such trolling, bad language and other issues could definitely daunt young players. So deleting is good.`
After reading through every post in this thread I changed my opinion a little.
One of the fastest solution is to divide language channels into two groups, officially moderated and not moderated (or moderated from time to time with some help from google traslate) as Endo Dy said.
I like this one because you can have everything what it is now without hurting anyone and make young users realize, that chats can be dangerous place too.
Furthermore, that legacy chat system needs to be thoroughly revised if not rewritten from the scratch. Looking for chats and joining makes eyes bleed. But not only UI side, having this issue we can modify core of this mechanism. Chats could have "unofficiall" moderators who could moderate in their free time. Of course it could bring some issues like banning without good reason etc. but when detected such moderator could face serious responsibility for his wrongdoings. Such moderator could use his command to publicly warn user, to mute him, kick him or even ban for interval of time. We need better (inline) reporting system, sending report for things like spam / racism / illegal content / other things stated in EULA. Report with context, of course, context and addictionally dozen of previous entries of this user. Reporting should take into account not only negative status of reported characted but whole user account (no pun intended).
For trolling, personally I don't know what to do. Every person can troll. Trolling is an essence of the Internet. You can't trust random post or `fact` you're able to read. Everyone can troll some newbie in unmoderated channel, everyone can pretend to be this newbie as well. It's the same issue as in engineering. If you try to create more idiot-proof solution, the universe will create better idiots. Being an idiot, unfortunately, doesn't break the law. Internet doesn't have nor age nor common sense restrictions. We can only wait for them to get smarter or let the Internet darwinism work.
Well, this post is longer than I thought it would be, but yeah, overall CCP, you've made a mistake. Please, take your time and don't rush every change into TQ.
PS
Praetar wrote:CCP, you receive a bunch of tickets and you decide to close historic language channels that hundreds of people use to avoid the problem.
Let the games begin...
I beg you foreign players of EVE Online to join these Faction and Technology channels after the release of Oceanus to continue your activities in your faction or technic language:
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Caldari - Polish
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