There has been wild stuff posted in the chat. Im all for a little cursing, but some of the stuff I’ve seen written goes well beyond the pale. The discord seems pretty favourable to some sort of moderation/filter process for the general chat, so I figured I’d start a conversation here!
Additionally: a separate (not-for-bugs) reporting option within games specifically to log a user’s record of bad behavior within a game’s chat – assuming there isn’t one already – would be nice, too? It seems like the regular bug reporting functionality already picks up the players’ chat at the time a user reports, so I’m thinking (naively?) it seems like it wouldn’t be that much to add?
It’s one thing if a player is frustrated or grumpy toward their opponent when they lose / get bad luck now and then. It’s a problem when specific users are frequently and consistently lashing out at their opponents by throwing out directed insults or even resulting to slurs (whether or not it ends up spilling out into the lobby chat later). We shouldn’t really have people acting like that within private games with strangers, either. …Right?
I wouldn’t care if the reports are sorted to a private category for moderator/admin review, just to keep players from knowing they were reported and then immediately carrying over petty arguments/insults to the forums/discord, tbh. I’m fine if that just means it functions as an ongoing log to reference if a player wants to claim they haven’t made a habit out of throwing around insults. Ultimately, I think it’d be good for accountability if the moderators/admins can review such claims and have specific, logged examples when it comes time to evaluate if a player deserves some form of punishment for continued poor/disrespectful behavior. Even if it only results in (temporarily) revoked chatting privileges.
but idk, maybe I’m missing something for why my suggestion wouldn’t help beyond whatever is in place already? I saw some discussion in the chat about this today, but not much discussion in this thread yet
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had one consideration after saving my reply: I hope there would be some way of sorting out reports for the would-be chat moderation review group that aren’t filed out sincerely (to limit users who abuse the reporting system when it’s not actually inappropriate behavior being reported). e.g. if somebody was prevented from chatting and just reported their opponents every time they lose games instead, etc.
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