The issues with channel 200 are derived for a small number of players. Squelch those and 200 becomes a great place to meet players on the other teams. Many friendship are made over 200 through the years.
Part of training, teach the newbies how to squelch.
I also think there should be a bigger presence of MODs in the arena with a bigger stick. Too often the political crap goes on too long before someone steps in. If a MOD is there to mute people right off sooner or later they will start to get the message that it will not be tolerated. The same goes for the bullying. It's pretty easy to see it happening when it does. If a MOD is on the ball and mutes them right off those getting bullied don't log off and/or rage quit. I don't know how many MODs there are but I don't think there are enough. I can see some friendly banter going back and forth, but some of the stuff you see these days goes way over board.
I know HTC want to "let the people play", but there have to be some limits or your just letting it all turn into a cess pool.
I feel no compassion whatsoever for anyone that complains about what they see on 200.
As has already been stated. If you are new to the game you wont even know about 200. And there is a reason why.
Thing is 200 was initially created so that people could talk to one another about things other people didnt want to hear. It is why it is not the default cross country channel. The default channel is the one you are supposed to be tuned to if you DIDNT want to see the very things people complain about now. The idea was you had to make a conscious decision to tune 200.
The problem is the very subject people complain most about. Politics.
In the beginning and for the first half of the US existence the west was wild and free. People moved there often to face adventure, dangers and all and to get away from the restrictions imposed on them in the big cities and heavily populated areas. The political structure was simple. You did what you wanted and you either lived or died or went back east.
Then more and more people moved out west. As the west became more popular people started deciding there were things they didnt like to have to deal with. So they brought with them politics which at its base is pretty much all about laws. Politics in action is usually based on what a group likes or doesn't like and what laws can be created to appease the loudest squealing group. Because going back east where it was nice and peaceful and full of laws wasnt something they wanted to do. Though some did. Instead they brought the east with them and insisted the west act more like the east.
Same thing here. 200 was created for people to have a certain degree of freedom about what they talked about. And if you didnt want to see or deal with those things. You simply stayed (back east)on the default channel. Then just like in the old west more and more people showed up and rather then go back east they decided to bring politics and its laws with them and settle the west because there were some things they didnt like. Rather then go back east which is probably where they belong. They instead demanded and got laws.
And here we are.
My feeling is you chose to tune into 200. Nobody has subjected you to anything you didnt choose to be subjected to.
If you dont like what you see on 200. Tune back to default. Its like TV. In you dont like what you see on ABC. do you just leave that channel on and complain or do you tune to a different channel?
"but everyone everyone else is on 200" Ahh everyone wants to be where the crowd is.
How is it you think TV shows are deemed a success or not? By the amount of people who stay tuned in. If it were that terrible. More people would simply tune to default and 200 would go away naturally or at least give it significant competition
I admit. 200 is a train wreck. Thing is people love to watch train wrecks.
And here we are
