Online Player Behavior (or lack thereof)

[BigBen]

Here's an idea- if you get ticked at someone, instead of publically berating them you can do the following:
1) Speak to them PRIVATELY (that radio 4 thing, remember?) which will allow them to squelch you if you're too offensive... and also spare the rest of us, because frankly I don't care if someone across the map loses a kill to a warp.
2) Load up a Lanc and REVENGE-BOMB the offender's HQ, which will help your team and annoy the object of your wrath (and his teammates) far more than trite insults;
3) take a break and come back later.  Crikey, it's only a game.  AH is a metric ton o' fun but at the end of the day it's just a bunch of electrons bouncing around an over-priced box of silicon!
BB

[Wanker]

Santa said:  

oh, btw, I *think* it was me (cannot recall for sure) who made the comment about the kick.

Nope, it wasn't you, Santa. It was someone in Leonid's squad.

I'm all for good-natured ribbing, like saying "banana's mom wears army boots" or something along those lines, as long as we all know it's all in good fun. But to me, there needs to be a line that we don't cross. Personally attacking someone, or using extreme profanity should not be tolerated.

Sure, we all lose our temper now & again, especially when we're in the heat of battle. But there's no need to vent into the radio buffer. It's much faster to swear and have a tantrum in the privacy of your own home. I mean, who really cares that you're mad, anyway? Does anyone really enjoy it when someone vents on the radio buffer?

[Westy]

"I'm all for good-natured ribbing, like saying "banana's mom wears army boots" or something along those lines, as long as we all know it's all in good fun. But to me, there needs to be a line that we don't cross. Personally attacking someone, or using extreme profanity should not be tolerated."

Exactly

 -Westy

[Cobra]

Here's a unique idea.....Treat people how you would like to be treated (this assumes that most here wanted to be treated with respect).

Cobra

[milnko]

I agree that profanity has no place in the text buffer.

My take on the whole issue is that profanity is/are just words, and the person using it has no more power than what I give them.

The last thing a person trying to tick you off wants is for you to remain cool, calm, and collected, they want a reaction and when you deny them a reaction, you've acquired a certain measure of power over them instead.

It maybe also be time for some Computer 101 classes:

Lesson 1
See the big button on the front of your computer labeled ON/OFF?  Use it instead of making an bellybutton of yourself in the text buffer.

Lesson 2
It makes no sense at all to pay $30 a month to go online to get pissed off, when you can generally find it for FREE elsewhere.

When you feel yourself getting spun up, refer to Lesson 1, take the opportunity to cool off, maybe go clean your gun, or scout out a watch tower sniper site, or recon a McDonalds (just joking) then log back in for entertainment, instead of using AH to learn anger management.

Remember what your Mommy told ya about being a Good Sport?
It's as important to be a polite winner, as it is to not be a sore loser.

Bottom line:
We are here to PLAY a GAME together, and escape reality for a while. Now I think we can all agree that in Real Life™ there are some really nasty people that we want nothing to do with, and the same applies here. Although it doesn't need to.

If ya want someone to play the game with, then ya need to be NICE enough that they want to play the game WITH you; if not, you may find yourself treated as the guy who fell into the septic tank.....Very lonely.

Now back to my mindless, self-serving comedian mode.

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[arhurb]

I would ban people plainly offensive, but, as this thread is proving, this is not an easy or clear issue. The matter is subject to own perception.

In my mind, clean language and politeness is something desirable, and is our responsibility to try for it.

Having said that, I don't like anyone but me deciding which line I can or can not cross. I don't like the feel of somebody looking at my way of expressing myself, judging wether It is acceptable or not. I don't like censorship, although I agree that abuses should be cut. I think that anyone who thinks that he actually can judge other's behaviour in terms of "good" and "bad" is just missing the point. I hope I don't ever find myself having to sign some code of morality and good manners written by somebody who, at best, had try to fit his own and particular perception on what acceptable behaviour is.

Finally, talking about my, yours, his own way of perceiving things, language, ofensiveness, etcetera, AH is HT's own. And HT has proved (IMO) to be a sensible character, both on the grounds of technical stuff and (specially) customer care. So I trust he will know (should he ever thinks any action is needed here) how to manage with peoples' actitude within the game. If I find that solution unbearable, I would leave, problably without any noise or complaint (even less threatening that If my own point of view is disregarded, I would leave). But until then, I'll gladly enjoy AH as usual, squelch whoever I find disrespectful, and, above all, have FUN.

Just my $0.02, blah blah blah. (and sorry for long post).

Pepino.

[Dago]

This thread makes a good case for disabling  smiley faces.  Sheesh

Dago

[Fariz]

 

Originally posted by Fury:
 Currently, the MSN Gaming Zone does just that.  There is a specific "code of conduct" becomming of an RSACi level 2.  One of the jobs of volunteer sysops and chancellors is enforcement of the "code".  

I play spades and chess in Gaming Zone from the first days of Gaming Zone. Sysops did not helped a bit, it still lot of people which behave opposite to Zone rules. AH is a heaven in comparing to MS zone.

Fariz.

[-towd_]

dang no one even mentioned me . im just a has been  

[Vulcan]

<in best Cartman voice>

Damn it! This would all be fixed if we banned all the scum sucking alt-monkey ho-dweeb ufo-spit cannon-hawg stratobuff laggy alt-f4'ing chute-shooting lowlife inbred banjo-playing tree-hugging left-wing man-hating lesbian cross-dressing scum!

But then us Knights would have no-one left to fight :-)

[Fury]

 

Originally posted by Fariz:
I play spades and chess in Gaming Zone from the first days of Gaming Zone. Sysops did not helped a bit, it still lot of people which behave opposite to Zone rules. AH is a heaven in comparing to MS zone.
Fariz.

Part of the problem is 300 sysops and 60,000 users.  They can't be everywhere at once, and they are never all online at once.  And if any of them ignored something, well a few complaints would get them removed.  There are some rooms at the Zone that sysops dread going into; Ants, Zone Wide Chat, Nar Shaddah (or most Jedi Knight rooms), and a few of the card game rooms.  But just because they dread going in there doesn't mean they should ignore them.

I'd hate to see some sort of sysop thing at AH.  Right now, I think the user base is small enough where that is not needed; and since I routinely squelch 1, I am ignorant of anything currently going on.  I prefer to give my 's privately.

A small community like this allows HTC themselves to determine what course of action (which may include doing nothing) is needed by reviewing screenshots that players send in.  When they get overloaded with things and get tired of looking at them, they might say something public about it.  I'd much rather see HTC looking over screens in private, than the community bashing each other over what is or is not a screen worthy of sending in.  It's up to HTC, not us, to make the decision of what is or is not important.

Fury

>[This message has been edited by Fury (edited 09-16-2000).]

[Hajo]

It's only a game......sheeeesh
Make an appointment to see a psychiatrist if you think otherwise <G>