Dude. I like you
I respect you.
But Ive been seeing that very same statement in various forms including that exact statement about "we can clean it up" going way back to even airwarrior days. Now we're going back almost 20 years. Admirable thought. But it hasnt had a lasting effect yet. Time and time and time again cleaning it up has been tried. and time and time and time again we end up exactly right here all over again
Im not defending what anyone has done or said on 200. Like I said. Its a train wreck.
But at some point it is going to have to be recognized that despite all efforts. Its just not going to happen. That may not be the desirable view. But if rationally thought out it is the only realistic one. History says so.
Time to try something new. Maybe that wont work either. But at least its better then doing the same thing thats been tried for years and years and we know hasnt worked
Give the idiots a place to bludgeon each other if thats what they want to do. Keep another channel clean and strictly enforced. Where civil people can play in peace.
I think you'd be surprised that when you take away the shallow end and have no lifeguard to rescue you at the swimming pool how many people would opt for the lifeguard after a while.
The way I predict it would go down is something like this. Initially, a lot of folk would move to unprotected channel. Stay a while. Then say the hell with this and move to the protected channel. There would be a core group of ruffians who would populate unprotected and it would get terrible ugly for a while with everyone testing out their newfound freedom. Then even that would largely calm down as everyone kinda punches them self out. you would have flair ups and a couple of people who are total buttwipes. But the rest of the channel would gang up on those and they woudl either mellow or leave. Course you may end up with a diehard or two. But those would be pretty much shunned by the rest of the group
Beauty of a clean channel is you wont have to see whats on the unprotected channel even if its directed at you. and if they come into the clean channel and start. They are gone very quickly.
It has been tried, yes, but it hasn't been maintained. Much like the boards, every once in a while Skuzzy comes in and lays about with his ban hammer and everything settles down again...... for a while and then slowly it goes back to being a cesspool. I don't blame Skuzzy, the poor guys got enough to do. He just doesn't have the time to MOD the boards day in and day out like they should be. The same goes for the game. I don't know how many MODs there are but I doubt they have enough to cover 24/7 like it should be. Would they have to be actively MODding? god I hope not! But they should be there to slap someone around if it needs to be done BEFORE things get out of hand.
Having a channel just for the A holes won't work either. THEY get there jollys off by annoying the "regular" folk. No regular folk in the A hole channel, they will just come looking for them.