Oh, well. It’s been a fun ~15 years.

[RichardDarkwood]

I could have (and did) tolerate the Knight, then Bishop hordes during my primary early morning game time. There was a perverse sort of satisfaction in slowing down—and sometimes even stymieing single-handedly —the Tropical Thunders and Jokers as their ~4-1 number advantage with maybe 15 active players made competitive game play unrealistic.

And it was really satisfying when 3Frosti and J0ker didn’t like it lol.

What I couldn’t stomach—and what ultimately drove me from the game—was hypersensitive mods repeatedly shushing me and others when they simply didn’t like what someone was saying, irrespective or not if those opinions or words transgressed HiTech’s codes of conduct.

The penultimate straw is when they (using the plural here so as not to offend the gender-challenged) threatened players with muting when a topic was being discussed with which they apparently disagreed. I and ~4 other players were exchanging calm and rational opinions about whether global warming was man-make, a natural Earthly cycle, or a combination of the two. It wasn’t flooding 200, and no one was being disagreeable. It was a real discussion, the sort of thing that builds and maintains communities.

I’m guessing the mod thought global warming didn’t exist at all and wanted to silence such treasonous commentary based on their (continuing with the plural, here) personal political opinions?

I don’t know.

But it was ridiculous. As have been several mod over-reactions in the recent past.

As I said above, oh, well.

Time to use the downslope of the bell curve to do something more productive.

Just got to a higher channel. Put your T channel on 211 and text. Then you can all voice chat and text about things without offending anyone

[Dadtallica]

If you can’t keep yourself off 200 then you’re just trying to be the problem.

It’s not that hard.

[Animl-AW]

You don’t have to keep yourself off 200. You have a tool called Squelch, use it

[hazmatt]

Any interesting observation that I've noticed with 200 is that people will be having a discussion, usually  just a normal conversation, mostly about something harmless, when a 3rd party feels the need to get involved and start firing off warnings and telling people to calm down or whatever. This seems odd to me because the people in the discussion are not the ones that are offended. It seems that it's usually a 3rd party who appears to be offended.

For me one of the things I miss the most about AH3 was the conversations on 200. It's the one thing about AH3 that really made the community feel different from other games. People could disagree on something but still enjoyed playing the game with the person they disagreed with. Seems like no matter what is said these days, somebody is going to be triggered and and there's a good chance it'll be somebody who's not even involved in the conversation.

[Shane]

Don't talk about that BS on 200.  I don't like being subjected to it in a WWII combat game. Go on a private channel.

The irony of the underpinnings of this game (WW2) as related to some of the commentary and personalities and on ch200 is... noticeable. It's also noticeable there's an overlap in who actually is held accountable, fairly or not, for their ch200 comments. 

Here's a fuller breakdown of one of my sig lines below... so many misunderstand the most quoted part, "vox populi, vox dei" as being confirmation the crowd is "right."  protip: it generally isn't. 

"Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit." ~Alcuin ca798


"And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness."

Yeah, this is a game based on a very real event that was 100% failed politics which led to a global war and millions of deaths:

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~George Santayana ca1905

And those who do remember the past are condemned to watch it being repeated by those who didn't.

[-gg-]

To me, the OP seems like he has an entitled outlook. Oh, it was just me and maybe a few others discussing climate change on 200.....

Guess what? I don't want to see that. I've also seen people crying about Trump and other stuff....  no one was really arguing about anything but this nimrod was going off.

What makes you think that others want to see that BS? Why do you have to use the game as a chat group? F-Off with it. I don't want o see it and it's not your personal chat group. Everyone has to see what "4 of us are calmly discussing"

It's like people who talk in public over speaker phone.

Get over it.

I don't like moderation on forums ( for the most part) because people come to them to duscuss stuff. Not in the game though. I don't want to see some low-IQ dipchit talking out his arse about climate change or politics

[JimmyD3]

Look its simple, we all know the rules and we know what should happen if we violate the rules. If I get warned, my response is always the same, "yes sir" and then I obey. The next step is to squelch those getting under my skin or log off. I don't understand this "poor me, my rights have been violated" crap. We all know who the ongoing "bad boys" are. 

[Dadtallica]

All I ever see is Rook country chat. It’s so chill and goofball I don’t know how you all can’t get this right out there. None of us really take anything too seriously and when someone comes in does we remind they are playing a game.

[Shane]

Guess what? I don't want to see that.

It's like people who talk in public over speaker phone.

I don't like moderation on forums ( for the most part) because people come to them to duscuss stuff. Not in the game though. I don't want to see some low-IQ dipchit talking out his arse about climate change or politics

So, what *do* you want to see on the entirely opt-in ch200?   And you are aware of in-game provided tools for dealing with whatever triggers you? Using the appropriate tool is a currently lost art, apparently.

[-gg-]

nothing triggers me and I've never reported anyone for anything.

[-gg-]

So, what *do* you want to see on the entirely opt-in ch200?   And you are aware of in-game provided tools for dealing with whatever triggers you? Using the appropriate tool is a currently lost art, apparently.

To answer a little more directly....

I don't pay a super lot of attention to 200, but I like seeing the game talk, smack talk and the funny stuff you see on 200. I like all of it. I don't type on 200 very often, but I like the normal game stuff that people talk on games. I don't want to see some moron never shutting up about Trump, Climate change or any of that crap.

I'm not a karen though. I've got tougher skin than 99 percent of people here or in the game. Nothing anyone says to me gets to me - and people sometimes do say off-colored stuff to me in game - but I think it's part of the game and it's part of the fun.

I'd never come here crying about being moderated in the game.

[Animl-AW]

Yall do realize some of the mod stuff is automated script, right?

I love the defense, “well we have lower numbers, I should be able to do what ever I want and break every rule”

Which is weird because derelict stuff contributes to lower numbers.

[Shane]

To answer a little more directly....

I don't pay a super lot of attention to 200, but I like seeing the game talk, smack talk and the funny stuff you see on 200. I like all of it. I don't type on 200 very often, but I like the normal game stuff that people talk on games. I don't want to see some moron never shutting up about Trump, Climate change or any of that crap.

I'm not a karen though. I've got tougher skin than 99 percent of people here or in the game. Nothing anyone says to me gets to me - and people sometimes do say off-colored stuff to me in game - but I think it's part of the game and it's part of the fun.

I'd never come here crying about being moderated in the game.

it's always smart policy if directly modded to chill, or be willing to take the timeout hit for an extra comment (make it worth it, lol)  Whinging about mods here is,  yeah.

well, smack talk gets a lot of .rpt with certain segments...     The abuse of .rpt is a whole other issue, tho'   

overall, there's much, much less "game talk" simply because reasons.  and no real influx of newbies that would generate it. There's barely even any in-country comms relating to game play these days.  (I haven't played MA the past few months, but still.)

Overall, the moderation in its various forms (auto, mod, .rpt) has not been consistently meted out.  How much (auto) filter bypassing do you see?  How many truly gnarly immature sexual  innuendo or real-life insults/comments seem to get a pass?

I will .rpt the truly offensive comments and just mentally ignore weebz (squelch is for snowflakes.)

[Max]

Shane, where are ya keeping yourself lately? My FUSS-O-METER hasn't had a good workout in ages. 

[icepac]

Irrigating deserts by moving great amounts of water, geothermal heat emitted above ground, direct heating from every a/c condenser and vehicle radiator, heat from data centers.   

But people want to charge people carbon credits before enough datapoints have been studied.