HTC Please Help Save Our Community

[Maverick]

Funked,

How are you going to know if ReTaRd leaves and the handle is used again?? That is the point I was asking about. Seems a permanent squelch is a bit extreme. Maybe I just don't spend that much time in MA so it's not a big deal to me. Doing the odd individual isn't a problem. Just my $.02 is all.

Mav

[AKSeaWulfe]

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[hazed-]

my veiw is this:
 if someone is constantly shouting racist comments just send their names to HTC and get rid of them if its just whining ignore it
if you dont like them shoot them down.
anything else is a waste of HTC's effort.
I'd rather have more planes.

Also this system would be open to abuse.look at how citabria gets so much flak online when really all hes guilty of is being good.
sure he complains now and again but so do we,
we all have those short tempered days right?
if a squad for instance was to decide to blacken someones name they would be ableto do so easily with 20+ votes etc.

If there is someone online who really is irritating just squelch em.I mean really do you meet that many annoying people every day?
I dont.but i see one in the mirror every morning  

hazed

[SkyRadr]

Great Post Wabbit, I don't post or read the WB often but the environment is getting a little out of control. I agree with you're post but I'd like to see it go further and after being squelched by the majority of the community how about a few days disablement to think about it.  

[Voss]

Why not just let them know they've been squelched? You know, return a message to them that says something like: "Voss thinks you are a turd." and repeat it for every user that has the 'whiner' squelched?  

LOL! heh

Voss 13th T.A.S.

[Hajo]

I find that squelching only is basically used after someone has already made comment to someone elses' inane remarks.  rule #1 don't be a jerk!  Don't respond to childish taunting.  I ignore it, I'm  here to enjoy myself not to get into a shouting match with someone that has the IQ of a squid.  although in some cases the squid most certainly can come up with better responses then I've seen on channel 1 <G>  Ignore....do what I do, as in the movie "The Wizard of Oz" I pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

[Torque]

Screw the permanent squelch list, just have it if more than 25% of the online players squelch a specific person it will boot them off the server for an hour.

[This message has been edited by Torque (edited 01-04-2001).]

[Pepino]

  Love the pink plane and banner thing  LOL!

Pepe

[Sundog]

Squelching individuals would be a nice feature. I usually squelch channel 1 as soon as I enter the arena. This is due to the concerns listed above and also because there really is a lot of BS'ing on it (Not that I have anything against that, but it just gets in the way of text calls between team mates and can have a negative effect on SA).

As such, what I would like to see is the ability to toggle on `one more' text buffer.
Then make it so we can set which channels are viewable in each buffer. This would allow me to toggle a group of channels at once, instead of one seperately. For instance, I would have channels 3 and 4 visible all the time and place channels 1 and 2 in the buffer that I would toggle on and off periodically. This would be in addition to being able to squelch individuals. Just my POV.

BTW, as much as we get bad examples here, I don't think the sky in AH is falling. Remember, the glass is neither half full nor half empty. It is twice as big as it needs to be!  

Now, about getting rid of these 256 x 256 maps and going to a 512 x 512 map....

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Sundog
VMF-111 Devildogs
'Criticism is always easier then craftmanship.'

[mrfish]

 

Originally posted by AKSeaWulfe:
Surely we could find the decency within ourselves to respect one another and think before we type?

not if society at large is any model! i believe that even common manners will have to be idiot-proofed someday - you dont get anything from being polite and no one judges adversely you if you arent so the incentive is gone - the community has to command it or just as in rl it will disappear - <apocalypse mode off>

[Purzel]

Hi Wabbit - Great Idea.

just one thing I'd like to mention, if it ahsnt already been done:

If someone is permanently squelched, he will never be heard again. Ok, one might think that you dont want to hear anything from him forever, but you should consider that there are online-games in which swearing is quite common.
Somone who is new to this and this community (esp. from foreign countries where swearing isnt considered _that_ bad) might come here with a foul mouth and get squelched by many, just to be seen (read?) never again.

This happened to me few months ago, and as someone said I should choose my words a bit better, I was actually pleasantly surprised.

Maybe there should be a permanent squelch-list only for every tour or something. I still believe it is only a minority that is just speaking too loud. So we prevent newbies from getting totally squelched from day one. And after not beeing heard by anyone for a whole month or so I think the most would stop. And for those who dont, they will be on the squelch-list again  

OK, just a thing to think about i thought  



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CU

Purzel

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"Find the enemy and shoot him down, everything else is nonsense!"
M. von Richthofen

[BUG_EAF322]

Just make a page where u can vote on the worst pilot just as a signal to the pilot.

I came from EAW where we saluted every pilot

I came in AH and i saluted every time when i got killed in the beginning, offcourse i kept saluting as i got banged and banged again. This made me very tired off it and i stopped very quickly.

I felt stupid as in most cases i didn't got a salute back. In the end these fights caught me so that i shouted on ch 1 gotcha!!.
This became a bit worser and worser.
I say sometimes fk dweeb or sissy but i would not get personally at all.

The word fk is so commonly used that we in holland got affected by it, that it is a pretty natural word here.

I know that swearing and shouting makes u look stupid. And i try to stop myself but it's hard.

Than again an invitation to the TA is not a bad idea and anyone also in reallife know i'm not so worse at all.

Point is the AH community is a nice community
with lotsa interesting different people.
Why ask HTC what to when we can ask ourselfes what to do.

If u really get insulted say so and try to talk to the other guy and the best way to that is to invite him to the TA and solve the problem instead off playing god.

S! chaps

[Eagler]

 

Originally posted by BUG_EAF322:

The word fk is so commonly used that we in holland got affected by it, that it is a pretty natural word here.

I know that swearing and shouting makes u look stupid. And i try to stop myself but it's hard.

Try harder.

It's plain ignorance and lack of maturity to use language offense to most watching. Cuss and swear out loud to yourself, just don't take the time and effort to type it.


Eagler