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Udonor
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Posted - 2012.03.29 00:17:00 -
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As always PR events like this tend to take problems and themselves over seriously. Internet corps which seldom interact with the public face to face even more so. Then there the bandwagon activist types searching for vicarious personal power by suggesting things need to raised to a higher level yet.
However...
CCP may have a suicide "hotline" program for players internally but it certainly is not well advertised for players to report someone. And its 99% players who first recognize possible issue via directly interacting with those players with problems.
*** If CCP is serious about getting involved with players who may have issues that EVE is making worse --- then they need to add a chat link similar to "Report ISK spammers". Probably need to let players input 1-10 as to degree of suicide or rage-aholic behavior. (1- more depressed than seems good for a person, 2- nobody would miss me, 3 - I have thought suicide over as a solution, 5 - seriously considering it, 7 - I have set a date, 9 - later today 10 - doing it now) ***
Thus players could call for CCP hotline people to monitor a person's convo for a while. Probably send chat to log for efficiency and track multiple reports over time. Then CCP could take appropriate steps if needed: like referencing to incident to closest local community suicide prevention. Obviously clear abuse of the flagging system would be like frivolous use of ISK spamming flag.
Sure if its an online friend or corpmate, players will spend some time themselves trying to prop things up. But most of us aren't therapists. And I for one certainly don't log to hold the hands of total strangers. Plus I have seen people use "suicide talk" as another particularly distracting scam mechanism in EVE (no big surprise there).
So CCP if you really want to step up -- do so in a more substantial way than just making your PR events squeaky PC clean. LOL - there would probably be a good news story that might even cross outside the dedicated gaming community in doing so. |
Udonor
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.03.29 00:58:00 -
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Yup PR-wise live broadcast makes a huge difference over small room.
No - when mistakes are made in front of an audience the sponsors very seldom jump up immediately to call more attention to it.
#1 they usually want to decide on official punishments before making an official response.
#2 responses made on the fly quite often make things worse - especially if a nervous on the spot authority garbles things such that it sounds like he agreeded with the faux paus.
In the future CCP will obviously add in a delay to live broadcasts. I suspect 1-2 minutes as CCP is not professional in business of censoring. They may even add a pause button to be able to call for a higher ruling.
LOL - CCP may force speakers to physically choose between 3 buttons before answering any question (a) no comment (b) inappropriate to respond in this forum (c) question accepted. The audience would see the light and be required move to another question if not accepted. Enforcing the old stop and think.
I suspect that questions to speakers might also need to be submitted via chat for CCP moderater approval. Then when you get a green light at your chair you read out your question -- White House press conference style. Because apparently the challenging nature of the questions in some way directed the non-PC response in this case. This is not the first time a speaker has responded inappropriately to a question that in retrospect they should have ignored. Those who are not regular public speakers often feel they need to respond to every question -- rather than dodging with "no comment" or "it would be inappropriate for me to respond in this forum".
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Udonor
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.03.29 01:11:00 -
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Sanatize EVE?
OMG no.
But CCP wants to makes sure what happens on EVE -- stays in EVE.
Think -->
#1 Possible viral video with game owners trademark stamp calling for efforts to make someone kill themselves RL?
#2 And no punishment or official condemnation from game owners?
PR nightmare in world outside EVE.
Sounds like typical national news fare to me.
Younger players have parents who are unaware of convos.
Some PC business and organizations have been known to pry into the private gaming life of employees and fire them for playing morally reprehensible games. It happened to D&D in the mid-80s.
Hell I am sure Obama and English PM would make calls protesting this corruption of morality and threatening trade embargoes or revoking business licenses -- or some such inconvenient garbage. |
Udonor
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.03.29 01:25:00 -
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What no cries from the other side about religious tolerance?
Church of Darwin: Bullies exist to make sure the weak don't breed.
Always a few honest true believer types. Just don't make your love of EVE too obvious to the RL world.
I still want to play in the house CCP built. Please don't incite the mob to set it on fire. |
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