Frost wrote:Note: at no time did Piki ask for assistance or intervention.
I did ask for intervention. I posted to the forum. I wasn't aware that I could do so in game until I started this thread.
I'd also like to point out from your log, that villain did swear at me, and swearing at other players IS against the rules. Yes, I get offended when people swear at me without good reason.
I would like to point out several issues with the above posts.
The court house mentions reporting abuse. If it's only for explaining administrative actions, the reporting abuse bit should be removed.
I'd also like to point out that disciplinary actions and abuse can be reported privately to avoid embarrassment. The GMs have my email addresss, it's associated with my account. They can also PM me in game if they'd like. Yet another argument against the court house forum.
I personally am for public chat logging. Space concerns shouldn't be too much an issue with this -- provided you are using a UNIX-based OS (such as Linux), you can easily set up scripts to erase logs more than x days old, and to compress logs that are newer than x days but older than x days.
I wouldn't want my whispers to be logges since those are intended to be private.
I expect any group that runs and moderates a game of their own accord to accept the responsibilities. That's really what this is about. Yes, the admins/devs/GMs are volunteers, and I can respect that. I'm even willing to be patient with them while they fix bugs and deal with abuse. But to outright neglect responsibilities is just stupid, and turns away other potential volunteers. This situation here, is a clear neglection of responsibilities.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying insult, flame, or raise trouble. I was offended by another, and that offense was clear violation of rules. I'd also like to point out that one of the players from my report, as well as a different player, as well as a GM (forget his name, was two words) gave me trouble later that night, and gave me even more of an insult. I didn't bother reporting that one, I was too worked up to think about it till later, but still...
Mana World is a good game, and has potential to be better. If this can be straightened somehow -- even for future situations, even if it isn't my particular report -- I'd be willing to volunteer too. I'm all for F\OSS and am learning to program. The more volunteers, the better, right?
EDIT: As a suggestion for chat logging and keeping them readable, do it on a per-map basis, each map having it's own set of logs.
The word f**** was intentionally written with letters. 
