Dyna, I KNOW that these are common sense things, but if there is one thing I've learnt in my years, its that you can never trust someone else's common sense!Dyna wrote:Cappy...most of that is common sense that should be observed...
So botting has a process that needs to go through but what some player considers abuse in front of a GM will get one banned? Something doesnt seem right here.
GMs should not deal with community problems at all, just the bots. The community needs to grow up as a whole and stop being so damned petty. So what if someone insulted you, out in the real world what are you going to do? Run to the police? No...you ignore them. We have that function for a reason, NOT the GMs. Cursing, insults, 'abuse' can all be fixed with the ignore function and its easy to use. Someone even invented a Nuke patch so you can remove them from your screen even.
Come on people...most of us are thinking human beings...use your brain
A Post to highlight a few things never hurt anyone. And on the subject of abuse, I have only ever had to ban ONE person for abuse (IIRC) and only because what was said crossed a line that no one dare need cross.
To the people who don't see proactive bot checking anymore, there is a reason for that! Our most effective tools were taken away and replaced by... guess what... THE COMMUNITY!
I am supposed to do no more than wait for YOU PEOPLE to report bots to me, and unfortunatly without the ability to be invisible (which from all accounts, people complained about as being as invasion of privacy) I am unable to check for the more sophisticated, programmed bots, because when i arrive on a map, the bot senses a GM and turns AFK. Thats all good and well, but if I start banning people who I get reports about without the proof, not only will I cop the flak here on the forums and on IRC, but the game will be left with no players!!
WHY?? Because the community is a petty beast who, for most part, just want a GM to do something about their own personal grudges!
I believe that my job here is as much mediator as it is rule enforcement, and I've always said this.
I would rather help the community help themselves that need to babysit them all the time, but that being said, there are some people out there that make it ever so hard!!!
I enforce the rules as they are set out, my interpretation is my perogative, yet I believe my interpretation to be pretty damn reasonable.
[quote="Platyna"1. TMW is not democracy, it is absolute monarchy. There is a King, a Queen and a Group Holding the Power (GHP), their decisions are law.
2. There is freedom of speech, however, since absolute freedom is never possible, your freedom ends where someone else freedom is being harmed, this especialy concerns the freedom of this project management board - we make and take care of this game for free, our only payment is your happy faces and a "thank you". Therefore no lies, slander, false implications and baseless bitching is allowed.[/quote]
Cappy =)
(supposing your brain needs in capacity and volume to be normal),
function to report it :
we all get them if you know what I mean.