Author Topic: Giving Muting power to customers.. BIG mistake!! (Read 2771 times)

AKSeaWulfe · « **on:** March 18, 2001, 04:40:00 PM »

Okay.. so I'm in the MA in a C205... I dive down (chasing an F4U) onto two P51s. One is Dingy, and I don't remember who the other one was. I see a friendly down there.. but he's already been shot down. I blew the one P51D outta the sky, then pursue a P51B(Dingy). After a long series of him running and then coming back to me then running away again, I finally get a fleeting shot on him. One 20mm strikes home, hits his rudder and he runs. Then I rope a dope a P47 and shoot him down. He gets my radiator, I go home and land.

On the runway, I message on the public channel to Dingy asking him what I shot off. He answers, then I reply "Cool :-) Good fight" or maybe it was "fun fight". He replies "Whatever", then I ask "What do you mean?" He goes off "Nothing cool about getting jumped from alt." I say something along the lines of "Yeah.. you had a P51D, P47 and a F4U.. I had alt" "Dick". I get warned to "use disgression". So I type "Yeah I'll use disgression." Then I continue with Dingy, not ONCE using any vulgarity after my initial warning. Mav13 was there to witness the entire thing. Then guess what? I get muted for 10 minutes. I log out.. log back in and say "Thanks whoever muted me.. I didn't even curse" Guess what? I get muted again.

I got one word for this... *roadkill*. Yes, I'm on a trainer account, however I recently got a new job and *might* be paying at the end of this week.....

The might depends on one thing... are you going to continue to allow this? If you are, I'm walking. I don't need to have my communications revoked when I didn't even instigate anything, nor did I curse after I was warned.

I will curse however here though: That was truly diddlyed up.
-SW

AKSeaWulfe · « **Reply #1 on:** March 18, 2001, 04:53:00 PM »

btw, I might mention that when you put up that screen that says "Please use Disgression".. it's spelled DISCRETION!!!!!
-SW

SwampRat · « **Reply #2 on:** March 18, 2001, 06:39:00 PM »

Yup...it's B.S. Only HTC should be muteing. I've seen to many ego's get way out of hand in MANY other online games, that's what happens when players are allowed "manager" positions.
SwampRat

Dingy · « **Reply #3 on:** March 18, 2001, 07:00:00 PM »

WAAAAAAAAA!

If you had kept your mouth shut in the first place, you wouldnt have been posting this.

I think its lacking disgression posting this in an open forum. What it comes down to is that I <S> pilots who fought well and who I have respect for. You didnt come close to ranking up there in either one of those and felt obliged to start hurling insults my way.

Posts like these dont impress many

-Ding

[This message has been edited by Dingy (edited 03-18-2001).]

rosco- · « **Reply #4 on:** March 18, 2001, 07:01:00 PM »

I dont get it, you mean any player can mute whoever they chose? That dont sound right. Did someone from htc mute you? IF so I find it hard to believe they would do so without good reason. Does the system actuall know when someone is is being a dick? "not saying you were just asking" I dont get it

If your saying he squelched you then so what? Ive squelched, been squelched..big deal

Dingy · « **Reply #5 on:** March 18, 2001, 07:03:00 PM »

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Originally posted by rosco-:
I dont get it, you mean any player can mute whoever they chose? That dont sound right. Did someone from htc mute you? IF so I find it hard to believe they would do so without good reason. Does the system actuall know when someone is is being a dick? "not saying you were just asking" I dont get it

If your saying he squelched you then so what? Ive squelched, been squelched..big deal

Neg Rosco, there are certain players who have been selected by HTC to tone down some of our antics on public channel #1. Wulfe just happened to exceed whatever measuring stick they have set and to tell ya the truth, Im glad he got muted.

He pissed the hell outa me

.

-Ding

Tac · « **Reply #6 on:** March 18, 2001, 07:05:00 PM »

shut up maggots, MUTE ALL n1ks!

hblair · « **Reply #7 on:** March 18, 2001, 07:06:00 PM »

Seawulfe, you do know that's a built in feature don't you? Cuss twice, you mute yourslef. Is that what happened?

AKSeaWulfe · « **Reply #8 on:** March 18, 2001, 07:08:00 PM »

No I was MUTED Rosco... complete and utter roadkill. I didn't say anything out of line except calling a dickhead (Dingy), a dick. After I was warned, I didn't say anything vulgar. Then I was muted.

If this game is going to resort to allowing dumb bellybutton community members with ego problems to mute someone for saluting them, then inquiring as to why they were given a poor response to a compliment.

We are on the same page Dingy, I think you are a loser so don't bother trying to reply to me.... oh hey on the "WAAAA" part... weren't YOU the one crying after I gave you a salute? You sorry bellybutton excuse for a man.
-SW

AKSeaWulfe · « **Reply #9 on:** March 18, 2001, 07:11:00 PM »

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Originally posted by hblair:
Seawulfe, you do know that's a built in feature don't you? Cuss twice, you mute yourslef. Is that what happened?

Nope. I was given a warning "Type with disgression", whatever disgression means... it's not a word, about 3 minutes after I typed dick. Then shortly afterwards I was muted for arguing, without any profanity or vulgar use of terms.
-SW

juzz · « **Reply #10 on:** March 18, 2001, 07:32:00 PM »

Yeah, he's right - "disgression" isn't even a word!

Dingy · « **Reply #11 on:** March 18, 2001, 07:33:00 PM »

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Originally posted by AKSeaWulfe:
No I was MUTED Rosco... complete and utter roadkill. I didn't say anything out of line except calling a dickhead (Dingy), a dick. After I was warned, I didn't say anything vulgar. Then I was muted.

If this game is going to resort to allowing dumb bellybutton community members with ego problems to mute someone for saluting them, then inquiring as to why they were given a poor response to a compliment.

We are on the same page Dingy, I think you are a loser so don't bother trying to reply to me.... oh hey on the "WAAAA" part... weren't YOU the one crying after I gave you a salute? You sorry bellybutton excuse for a man.
-SW

ROFL!

As much as you would like to think it was I who muted you, sadly it is not a responsibility that HTC has provided me with. Prolly with good reason.

I would take quite a bit of enjoyment from watching the likes of Wulfie get pissed off as I play with that feature just for the heck of it.

And Wulfie...as for me crying, lemme set you straight since you seem to be getting confused here. I wasnt the one posting about how its so wrong that I got muted. As a matter of fact, I didnt say a thing until you pressed the issue. This whole situation began when your ego got bruised when somone didnt agree with you. Not mine.

Funny how its me whos a "sorry excuse for a man" when its Wulfie taking this to the public boards and yet resorts to namecalling once again.

Now....wheres that MUTE button for the boards hiding. I wanna try it out on Wulfie again and see him squeak when he cant reply to any more posts for 10 minutes!

-Ding

[This message has been edited by Dingy (edited 03-18-2001).]

AKSeaWulfe · « **Reply #12 on:** March 18, 2001, 07:42:00 PM »

You are disillusioned Dingy. I wanted to know what the whatever was for. When you said I came in with alt and gangbanged you, I replied about how your numbers were greater than me. 3:1 isn't exactly a gangbang when I am the 1. I was giving you the facts of the situation. I didn't say you had to agree with me, I sent you a compliment and what I got back was just a whiney remark. It wasn't my ego that got bruised, I was inquiring as to why you couldn't just accept the compliment and be done with it rather than give me "Whatever" and then "you came in with alt". I don't need your respect, I don't need your compliments, but isn't it the decent thing to do if someone compliments you to acknowledge it? I guess in your mind you'd rather fling insults. The fact of the matter is, I still got muted for no reason. You were carrying on just as much as I was, but *I* was muted. I never said or implied you muted me, a customer did and I don't think it was just.

Anyways... this post wasn't about YOU Dingy... I was giving the background for the situation and why I think giving the customers god mode powers is roadkill, and this clearly proves it. If HTC leaves it the way they have it... fine I'm gone and you don't have to deal with me.
-SW

J_A_B · « **Reply #13 on:** March 18, 2001, 07:49:00 PM »

I'll use SW's own logic here:

If you're leaving anyway SW, then why are you bothering to post here about it? Does it mean that much to you?

J_A_B

DoKtor GonZo · « **Reply #14 on:** March 18, 2001, 07:51:00 PM »

I didn't even know about this mute power. Does that mean that when some puckfuddle is mouthing off racist remarks on channel 1, and NOT being muted, that this behavior is approved of?

-DoK (... the Devil's Advocate ... and then some)