Another 3 Country Channel w/o Political Dicussion

[Westy]

"you fill up your squelch list and there's nothing more you can do."

 Yup. And the next time you logon you have to squelch them again, and again, and again
while the people doing it have free run.  Mots often it's the same old people to boot.


"Maybe political talk on range, country, or 200 should be a mute-able offence."

 Amen to that! It *is* that way on the forums. It would seem to me that it would be simpler
to just provide a perma-squelch feuture rather than having to have the airwaves baby-sat
by an auto-filter that can't prevent circumvention or a live body. Then again what if the live
body wasn't objective?

 

[GlassJaw]

Everything that goes into 200 should be automatically translated by the game and posted in German.

[715]

It would be nice if Hitech or Pyro or Scuzzy were to state on the board "The main arena is no place for political discussions."  No mute, no ban, no consequences- just that they would prefer it be minimized.  Then, when a political argument gets out of hand, someone can say "You know HTC has said the MA is no place for political discussions" and I bet most people would stop because they respect the HTC guys.  I truly believe this would be in HTC's interest as the political arguments, no matter what side you are on, are offputting and can adversely affect enjoyment of the game.

[Lusche]

It would be nice if Hitech or Pyro or Scuzzy were to state on the board "The main arena is no place for political discussions."  No mute, no ban, no consequences- just that they would prefer it be minimized. 

Has happened before, even by means of an arena message, also I have seen this
proclaimed by a HTC employee on CH200. Works only for a short time, because...

Then, when a political argument gets out of hand, someone can say "You know HTC has said the MA is no place for political discussions" and I bet most people would stop because they respect the HTC guys.

...is just wishful thinking.

[Skuzzy]

Political discussions are not part of the game environment and are not welcome there.  It would ba valid use of the .report facility.

Generally speaking, discussions of topics which have nothing to do with the game, could be a reason to use the .report facility.

People insisting on having non-game related discussions are free to tune to a non-public channel and talk about whatever they want, as long as they want.

[BluTrain]

  Good to know Skuzzy