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Petition for a MATURE MMORPG room
Phos
Member Posts: 455
These forums have become a cesspool of flamers, trolls, negativity, and jerks. It didn't used to be this way. It's a fairly recent phenomenon (as far as I can remember, it started getting really bad around the time VG came out.)
I wonder if the moderators of these forums could create a 'mature' room where trolls and flamers are not allowed to post, but can view. The mature room should have some rules of grammar, decency, and should be monitored for jerks. Then the younglings might learn decency if they ever drop in to read those threads. It seems like it's getting more and more difficult to find a decent site that's informative and actually pleasant to visit when I get home from work.
I'd pay for this.
- Phos
AAH! A troll fire! Quick, pour some Kool-Aid on it!!!
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There'd only be about 6 of us that'd post there.
Pfft, I'd troll it.
And just how is MMORPG.com going to figure out who's in and who's out? Start scouting and then picking "mature" posters? It's a nice idea but never going to happen.
How exactly would you moderate it? A forum like that would be a troll magnet!
You mean they didn't give you guys access yet?
/tinfoil hat
Not a good idea imho. Not happy with the level of conversation on the main forums do something about it dont run away into some silly "mature forum".
----ITS A TRAP!!!----
What can be done about it?
Lead by example. Always post in a polite manner yourself. If somone is impolite politely ask them to be. If its really bad report their posts. Flaming and being an asshat is against the rules.
----ITS A TRAP!!!----
You might as well as water to not be wet.
Heheh, you ever see ads by people selling "clean dirt"? Kinda like that.
Second, it seems to me that the majority of 'mature' posters on these forums are just trying to bait people into insulting them so they can report them, and get them banned...
Well done.
just to add my 2 cents...people argue, its natural. People need not feed the fire of certain things and not give food to the troll. I just say that if you dislike what the other person is saying because they are "flaming" or "trolling" I say don't give them the honor of a response. Yes there are people who can be considered a ass hat, just ignore then they will eventually will learn...BTW one last thing the admins do the best they can adding another forum would just add to the workload that they are already dealing with.
I would like a moderated pub area i.e. Mature.
Or even a login feature to disable any un-moderated forums from the front list.
Now playing: VG (after a long break from MMORPGS)
Played for more than a month: Darkfall online, Vanguard SOH, Everquest, Horizons, WoW, SWG, Everquest II, Eve
good suggestion I vote too
I don't completely understand how this concept works...If i fail to misspell a word or add a period at the end of my sentence, a moderator will come to my forum door and PEW PEW me? Er, i vote NAY for this forum.
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
So is this going to be something based on our ranking system or the like? Or is the idea to make an age restriction like so many morons try to do with even MMORPG's like Age of Conan and hope against hope that the age limit will keep at least half the idiots out?
Quoting people doesn't make you clever, in fact, it makes you all the more stupid for not bothering to read the quotes you post in the first place.
Id rather post and deal with the odd 14 year old troll, as opposed to sipping my online tea and talk about MMO's in a smug douchebag manner.
Honestly, while I would love to do away with every last idiot on the planet, I've come to the sad realization they are part of life. What happens after its opened, moderation is controlled by debate teams with essays proving why they should stay in the forum?
How would we have our fun if you keep all the trolls away?
No one to make look silly would make the boards quite boring.
Currently playing:
LOTRO & WoW (not much WoW though because Mines of Moria rocks!!!!)
Looking Foward too:
Bioware games (Dragon Age & Star Wars The Old Republic)
Blame SOE for this because they've pissed off sooo many people with SWG we've all come here to flame the boards cause theres not other good mmorpgs.
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SWG - PrePub9 Jedi mastered all professions - June 26th 2003 > Nov 15th 2005
EVE Online - 24 million SP - May 6th 2003 > Early 2005
PlanetSide - BR20 CR5 - May 23rd 2003 > Sept 2003
Thats funny, and sad
I think there is such a diverse manner of opinions on these mmorpgs especially with people who are fans of older mmorpgs, and those who much prefer newer mmorpgs that I don't think seperate rooms to reflect those two audiences would be so bad. Like an oldschool and a new gen room perhaps.
I get your point, OP. mmorpg.com forums are love/hate for me. I check them throughout the workday as a pleasant distraction. Sometimes I find threads that are seriously well written, well-thought out - with great responses. Even if I don't agree with the opinions, they can be great reads - respectful and articulate. But then, many are seriously poor - just attempts to get attention or needlessly bash. Somedays I seriously consider deleting the link from browser entirely.
I'm not active in a guild right now because I'm not that into any MMO for the moment (waiting waiting waiting.) But, I found that my old guild's forums were excellent. Of course the pool of people was much smaller, but having an community identity kept things civil. Even when people joked and harassed each other, it was never truly malicious - just fun. Maybe you could start a non-guild affiliated mmo forum site, where people apply to register and post - anyone can read, but only those accepted can actually post. It would reduce the number of people creating a quick alt account just to flame, and perhaps give people more of a stake in the quality of the site. Basically you could look at it like a smaller discussion club rather than a public forum.
mmorpg.com could do this, but clearly they have many more activities and responsibilities than closely moderating forums. mmorpg.com is great and has it's place as a big public site, but it sounds like you might enjoy something smaller. A big issue, though, is that designing and maintaining (and paying for) a forum site takes a lot of effort. It would take a few people serious enough about the idea to put in the work. Very possible, though.