Language in the MA

[Shane]

Originally posted by sling322
If you get a warning, why push it.  I know everytime I have received a warning I figure that the moderator has their eye on me and I better tone it down.  Why continue at that point or even worse, why talk back to the monitor?

that's all well and cool *if* you actually *receive* a *warning.*

one is supposedly to receive a warning????  or depending on the monitors mood and which of his buddies you're talking to, you get smacked with a mute right off the bat?

hmmmm?

[wipass]

I had always assumed that the software was pre-loaded with words that were "banned", and that the warning was an automatic response, are you saying that there are moderators that monitor all of the radio channels ?

I would have thought that from a physical point of view this would be impossible to do.

wipass

[moot]

there is an automatic censor in the .exe.

[Shane]

as well as occasional human moderators.

[Rude]

Originally posted by Steve
Curly. Rude may be a nice guy..dunno.  I know he was rude to me. To be fair to the guy, he baited me and I stepped right into it.  I started smackin on 1. Again, I was muted and for good reason.  The popup window I received afterward was the decision maker for me though, so I have issue w/ the whole squad.  Not saying I'm in the right, just that I'll take particular pleasure in killing them.



Are AK's back to bish?  As much as I like flyin w/ many of the rooks, I was left hanging after saving a countryman once too often and am going to make a change when I log on today.

To be loved, is a fine thing.

Oh...and thanks Curly....does this mean you'll throw the duel next week?

[Toad]

Originally posted by Shane
that's all well and cool *if* you actually *receive* a *warning.*

one is supposedly to receive a warning????  or depending on the monitors mood and which of his buddies you're talking to, you get smacked with a mute right off the bat?

hmmmm?

Well, does the autocensor issue warnings?

I don't know; I've never been warned or muted. But I'd guess that the autocensor only mutes you. Is this true? Can some of you "more experienced" folks comment?

Is it possible you were automuted by the autocensor with no warning?

Or can you be sure it was a human moderator? If so, that would simply reinforce (to me) the idea that when you introduce humans there's going to be variation in "enforcement". Human judgement then factors into the equation and no two folks are likely to be exactly the same.

[Shane]

Originally posted by Toad
Well, does the autocensor issue warnings?

let's just say that very infrequently, like maybe once or twice i've gotten a "warning" from what appears to be the filter.

i do know for a fact that the filter doesn't also chime in with unusal commentary in the "error msg box."



feel free to find a quiet spot and test it yourself.

notam: the filter doesn't always seem to be "on."

maybe you can call HTC and ask for some clarification on the matter?

it's that human fudge judge factor that seems to be causing the most consternation and perceptions that things aren't quite fairly being applied.

[fffreeze220]

If u get a message "come down bud" "or watch ur language bud"
then it must be a human moderator.

[Samiam]

Don't overlook the obvious solution here: Spend more time flying and less time spewing nonsense on Ch. 1.

There is actually more to Aces High than a chat room.

It truly amazes me how much typing goes on. I barely manage to keep enough of an eye on the green text to know what my team is up too, let alone be participating in three conversations on two channels. I swear some people spend two hours online and never leave the tower.

(Of course, I still hold homage to those that I see right there in the middle of a furball with me, yet are still going on about the quality of their 3rd graders education on channel 1. A feat I am in awe of.)

[Steve]

My mutes come from a human moderater.  The popup window "You just don't get it,  do you?"  is hardly AI. It's not the muting that bothers me, I deserved it.  It's the arbitrary application of such authority and the churlish taunting I received thereafter.  We may be capable of self-policing,  but at least some of the handsomehunkes that are currently at the switch would better serve us by working at a toll booth or some other mindless drudgery.

It was certainly one of Rude's altstudmuffin friends.

[Shane]

Originally posted by Samiam
Don't overlook the obvious solution here: Spend more time flying and less time spewing nonsense on Ch. 1.

yeah, using private comms is much satisfying when it comes to spewing nonsense.

[Ack-Ack]

Originally posted by Steve
My mutes come from a human moderater.  The popup window "You just don't get it,  do you?"  is hardly AI. It's not the muting that bothers me, I deserved it.  It's the arbitrary application of such authority and the churlish taunting I received thereafter.  We may be capable of self-policing,  but at least some of the handsomehunkes that are currently at the switch would better serve us by working at a toll booth or some other mindless drudgery.

It was certainly one of Rude's altstudmuffin friends.

To me it seems that the chat Gestapo aren't even handed when they hand out their punishments.  Those that are percieved as the 'in' crowd do tend to get away with a lot more than us 'outsiders'.

But then, just a quick relogging to the MA circumvents any mute punishment.  As well as punctuation at the end of one of the banned words gets past the auto-censor.


Ack-Ack

[Shane]

Originally posted by Ack-Ack
But then, just a quick relogging to the MA circumvents any mute punishment.  Ack-Ack

try that with a particularly pissy monitor (or dump inadvertently and come back) might get you a msg like... relog to avoid a mute again will get you gone, with a new 10 min muting.

it's all about who you know or are talking to as much as if not more at times (as perceived) that seems to count or not.

anonymity just opens the system for abuse, imho, especially when things seems so unevenly and sporiadically applied by the human moderators.

[fffreeze220]

.squelch 1

[Don]

>>Some realy sick toejam gets by compleatly uynchecked while somthing as unoffensive as get real warents muting? wtf. <<

Hehe, well said
Last night I said to a guy that "I don't give a rats ass" in response to a comment he made about people won't respond to me if I type in caps. He laughed, and I laughed, and then I received a warning message about profane language.
If it isn't going to be properly enforced, then don't use it IMO.
I too have heard a lot worse from people who intend to be offensive, and continue to do so.
Pfft! The inconsistencies make it less of a help.