CrinkzPipe Posted:

Dude, that rule has been there forever, just no mod to enforce it.

I’m not against mods, but it’s pretty annoying to have a mod in there 24/7 now, I don’t even want to chat anymore because it’s like I’m being watched.

And yeah “you shouldn’t be worried if you’re not doing anything wrong,” but IDC was always the mod free zone until now, and it was fun that way.

CrinkzPipe Posted:

This.

Plus we don’t even know all the rules for IDC. Is it like a non-rp forum where you can’t embed shock without warning and post hijackers with the rule of no spamming? Or is it only no spamming?

I know I’ve made ET click on a few non warned shock images in my time in IDC.

He just says “Why did I click that” and lols it off.

Lester Burnham Posted:

Good Stuff

Good stuff. I’m quoting that into our discussion in the Mod forum.

I simply think we should scrap IDC all together. It’s a pathetic attempt at a chat (Sorry, ET, I couldn’t do any better, but it really is), and it would be a lot easier to simply get a few IRC channels rather than making ET program even more for something that not everyone uses.

Sergeant Cid Posted:

In my opinion, any continually repeating posts that are fairly similar, that are disruptive to other conversations, and are not themselves part of a serious conversation, can be considered spam.

I think this will always be a grey area to call. I’d rather see the ability to tempmute or tempkick a player from IDC than outright bannning.

This is really subjective definition. I’m not trying to be a male reproductive organ, honest, I could apply this to IDC in general and ban everyone.

Also by your definition, I can not role play in IDC, because my character wants to **** dolphins, and no one will take this as a “serious conversation” and might find this disruptive to their boring non-dolphin-****ing conversation. So, if my character were to say “I want to **** a dolphin”, “Man, I’d really love some dolphin woman's genitals right now”, “Hey guys, have you ever ****ed a dolphin”, “Man, dolphin woman's genitalss sure are great, I’d like to put my male reproductive organ in one right now”, etc. this is a repetitive message that is disrupting conversations. But really, it’s just good role play.

Again, the easiest solution to implement is “Ignore”.

A better solution is additional channels, including one that is unmoderated.

A better punishment is a gag/mute feature, because really, banning a player from doing anything on the site because they disrupted the chat area, that is never a real part of gameplay, ever, is overkill.

The easiest punishment is to go back to not moderating IDC.

But let’s not forget the point of the thread – which wasn’t to discuss what the best solution might be… it was to get finite restrictions.

I have no idea what happened to this post. It got totally ganked up when I hit ‘Post It’.

Raepdog Posted:

This is a horrible rule. Spam goes just as fast as it comes.

No, not really.

duca Posted:

Can you please clarify this?

See my above edit. I have no idea how it got screwed up, but in a nutshell, I was generally agreeing that we need more options for moderation in IDC, if we’re going to be expected to moderate it at all.

Bannings just aren’t the right way to go for most IDC issues. Ignores for Player use and Tempkicks/Mutes for Mod use, as well as multiple rooms for multiple purposes.

And when I said ‘serious discussions’ in my earlier post, I guess I really meant ‘relevant’ discussions.