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[cord]

Gentlemen,
I have a 12 year old daughter that likes to watch me fly this sim. It has been a lot of fun for me and her. Tonight I had to explain to her several terms, that came across the buffer. I'm sure that real men in combat used these terms in a fit of rage or in deep pain, I don't think these men would use them to taunt and degrade another in a game.
I deleted my account tonight. Tomorrow I will e-mail my squadron commander and enform him of my resignation.
Quake On.
cord

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"Why is it called a R.I.P cord?"

[hblair]

And I thought I was a fuddy duddy for feeling the same way. Sorry to see ya go man. Sure we have the squelch command but there are some words that if typed on an open channel oughta automatically kick the punk to his desktop for at least 24 hours. People would suddenly be concerned what they typed. I love this game, but there are some bad apples with THE worst attitudes on the open channel that I've ever seen online.

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[leonid]

I generally squelch ch.1, just so I don't have to hear a lot of that nonsense.  I figure if someone from another country wants to contact me they'll do so privately.  Of course, this doesn't stop me from seeing what my own countrymen have to say about something, but if a comrade gets base I usually let them know.

Thing is, I have a 2 month old son, and I really haven't put much thought into the idea that he might very well be standing next to me someday, watching me play online.  This is certainly food for thought.


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leonid, Komandir
5 GIAP VVS RKKA

"Our cause is just.  The enemy will be crushed.  Victory will be ours."

[Fatty]

Actually the language doesn't bother me so much as the whiny context of it, but I could see if I were in your situation where it would.  I wouldn't mind seeing bumping when it gets out of control at all.

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Fatty
FAT DRUNK BASTARDS

[Torque]

Ditto hblair.

I get blasted on open channel, blasted on private channel, people utter physical threats towards me on the BB among other things.

Cord why should you leave, I fail to understand that, make them leave.


It's such a select few that are spoiling the whole atmosphere in AH. HTC has more important things on their minds other than babysitting!

Hopefully HTC can come up with a few filters.

WE CAN CALL IT TOWDSQUELCH VER 1.0



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[Maniac]

.squelch xxxxxx

[bloom25]

That's really too bad.  Since most of us are adults, I think some of us sometimes forget that young children may be watching.  If someone really feels the need to express themselves in this way, why can't they at least take it private and spare the rest of us?

bloom25
THUNDERBIRDS

[Elp]

Too bad   . I'd like to know why we can't squelch channel 1 and 2 and only use private channels or squadron channel?

[Saintaw]

Agreed, a Filter is needed...we already have a strong policy about that in JG2.

Sorry to hear you leave for that...Keep in touch !


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Saw/Saintaw
GMT T.O.D. SITE
Don't shoot ! I am only an observer......
 
JG2 "Richthofen"
"Firepower Mate, that is what separates the men from the boys..."

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[crabofix]

I think that the use of degrading words are used by mostly the youngsters and tryouts in the game.
(hopefully)
Theres easy ways to get rid of em, "screenshoot"  and send it to Hitech corp.
Probebly they will be warned and finely kicked out for sure.
It happens that I take a "screenshoot" once in a while, reading very strong words in the buffer. But never sent any in, yet.

You American guys must understand that its a
little bit hard, for us europeen guys, (atleast swedes) to see what is the diffrance
between watching TV and reading a text buff. in a online game.
But it is just the way it is .
Dont get this wrong I am against all "badtalk" in games open for all ages or when children might be watching.

Crabofix, "fish, fish, fish"
Svenska Kungliga Flygvapnet.

[Duckwing6]

ohh for those who want to squelch 1 and had no luck so far .. just set your radios to any other number or name and have none tuned to 1 and you're reliefed !

[Swager]

My wife had to explain to me some terms I seen in the text buffer.  

Me: Honey, What does this mean?
Wife:  Well, it is a message addressed to a pilot named Swager.
Me: Oh!  That's me! (grinning)
Wife:  Well this person here is explaining  that your flying sucks and you're a dweeb!
Me:  What does that mean?
Wife:  Well Sweetheart! These people that you're flying with?  They realized in 6 short months without ever meeting you, what I've known for 5 years.
Me:  Is that good?
Wife: Yes Dear, it's good, you just go back to flying.
Me: Thanks Honey! Maybe I'll take this cute little blue plane this time. My CO calls it "Chicken of the Sea" and "Quakehog".  Yea!  that would do nicely!!

Okay!  To be serious! Yes sometimes the text buffer gets alittle foul.  It seemed to be decreasing lately.  You'll always have your hotheads that spoil it.  As pointed out earlier, JG2 has a policy about that. It is totally unnecessary.  If the person belongs to a squad, the squad should be responsible for putting it down.  If the squad cannot take care of it, then it should go to HT.  Okay!  My belief only.    

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Swager
"Damn.....I can't believe I missed that shot!!!"
   
JG2 "Richthofen"

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[Dinger]

Simple, Crabofix, in the US the FCC likes to yank people's broadcast licenses for putting out material deemed "obscene or indecent" according to vague "community standards".  You may not believe this, but have to come to Europe to see nekkid scenes on broadcast TV, and hear all the good swear words.
They might be lettin' stuff slip now, but you ain't gonna see no softcore (or, where I am now, hardcore) porn on the air in Peoria, IL any time soon.

[Yeager]

Fortunately for me, I could care less
what anyone says to anybody about anything.

I am in this sim for one reason.  To have fun
*virtually* killing other people sitting at their computers.

If my girls are standing behind me watching when one of our arena drunkards goes on a self degrading slurfest I simply say "see what amazinhunks are like!  avoid em"

Big deal!

Yeager

[FDAce]

Foul language is inappropriate at all times, and it seems that HTC is trying to inforce that to some extent. Whining is just a part of the game and we just need to offer the whiners cheese to go with their whine.