Random MMO Question....
Nov. 22nd, 2007 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caraigI'm curious about something here, mostly about behavior in online communities. I'd like to open a discussion about this.
Here's the situation: You're in an online community/game. You enjoy it, but the 'general' channel of the chat channel for the server is frequently filled with people who show a low maturity level, using offensive language that seems to threaten to overload the profanity filter, trash-talking, being obnoxious, and who still think 'your mom' jokes can be funny. You can stay quiet, but this is starting to ruin your enjoyment of the game. You can put the worst offenders on an ignore/gag list and never hear from them again but that doesn't solve anything for the community. You can turn off the channel, but again, that doesn't solve anything for the community, and besides, there are still lots of people who are worth talking to and helping out. Telling the offenders to behave just has them level their 'guns' at you and they keep going on.
So, what do you do in a situation like this? What's your plan of attack, if any, and how do you handle the situation to make it more comfortable for the largest number of (sane, sensible) people?
Here's the situation: You're in an online community/game. You enjoy it, but the 'general' channel of the chat channel for the server is frequently filled with people who show a low maturity level, using offensive language that seems to threaten to overload the profanity filter, trash-talking, being obnoxious, and who still think 'your mom' jokes can be funny. You can stay quiet, but this is starting to ruin your enjoyment of the game. You can put the worst offenders on an ignore/gag list and never hear from them again but that doesn't solve anything for the community. You can turn off the channel, but again, that doesn't solve anything for the community, and besides, there are still lots of people who are worth talking to and helping out. Telling the offenders to behave just has them level their 'guns' at you and they keep going on.
So, what do you do in a situation like this? What's your plan of attack, if any, and how do you handle the situation to make it more comfortable for the largest number of (sane, sensible) people?
