Very well… But my last message is this. To you and all PCU Alike… -FIX THIS- be apart of the rest of the server… You devided it. You know you did… Bring it back together. Rejoin the server and stop thinking of your self as some exclusive elite club…
This is derailing a bit so let’s drop it there.
Any other ideas on ways one could improve the moderation system?
While it’d take a lot of work what with coding being tricky stuff, I think if the system itself let the players handle their drama mostly on their own in an efficient way (by blocking, phasing, avoiding being tracked etc) it’d be good. It’d require less GMs having to step in and view every case.
One thing that could be very nice is some kind of free name change option. Hear me out here. Whenever I or friends have made tickets mentioning how stalkers have tracked us through the Friend List, there’s been suggestions of buying a name change to remove yourself from the list. I don’t think it’s great of Support to suggest you spend -money- to try and avoid being harassed. Especially if the solution isn’t permanent.
So either the Friend List is changed, like mentioned earlier (How do you do the quote thing? Help) making it so friend list doesn’t show location. Or maybe have it be a setting that you can turn off location tracking. TRP has that for its own tracker and it works wonders. Let’s you opt in if you want to show up on the scanner to let other RPers find you, or opt out if you’d rather not be easily found (very handy for villain characters and other sneaks who suffer from too much attention when they’re trying to be subtle.)
Or something like a monthly free name change. Or have it be a service offered to people struggling with being tracked after they made a ticket maybe? If name change is something Support suggests to combat stalkers, I don’t think it should cost money.
I get the “divide” sucks, but really? It’s not that big of a deal unless you make it out to be. It’s easy to RP on the server with people you enjoy while ignoring those you don’t. The server is huge and pcu are a small minority compared to the masses. Just do what you like and ignore what you don’t.
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You are mistaken vaxir. I hate the devide all together. Those you love and hate and alike.
Remember back in the old days when none of that matter? Where despite it all and everything we all included eachother?
I know you do… Cause You where there. I remember you
idk what this vulpera is on anyway anyone who encounters us is free to RP with us.
I also have no idea how it became the topic of this thread.
Look, I’m gonna be honest with you - it’s really not that deep. There’s no divide put on the server, there’s no ‘elite’ clubs. As Vaxir said - do what you like, ignore what you don’t, and curate your own experience. This isn’t something you need to get vastly worked up over IMO. It’s people sharing an online space playing a watered down game of DnD. That’s all it is.
You can have a lot of fun with that, you can have a lot of emotional investment in that, but that’s all it is at the end of the day. There’s not some big evil mastermind puppeteering the whole thing, there’s no grand conspiracy at play. People play with who they like to play with, that causes groups to form, that group grows bigger - that’s how it works for pretty much everyone here.
I’m not saying this to try and make a mockery of you or insult you or anything of that nature. I think you have a bit of an unusual perspective and I’m just trying to help you think reasonably about this.
Vulpera were a mistake, we should have got Gnolls so we can just dismiss the GD tourists as the deranged members of their respective tribe
Oofh… Oba… That must have taken allot of energy to say…
Have you seen COAD the tumbler? It kinda contradicts everything you said… There is like screenshots of this happening you know? A long history of it even?
I am all for letting that remain in the past.
But it doesn’t seem like you guys are you know what I mean? I would want nothing more than the whole server coming back together again…
But you are lying to me… aren’t you?
I think that something that would help both the community and themselves is a video that shows the process of how they moderate something, and how to properly report something.
Reporting things in WoW nowadays feels like you’re making a wish to some kind of fae creature, where no matter what you want, no matter how you word it, they always find a way to absolutely miss the point of what you’re reporting, even if it goes against TOS.
Extremely NSFW TRP profiles cannot be reported because it is a ‘third party addon that cannot be moderated by us’ where their reply always is “just uninstall the addon”. Then, they turn around, and ban addons here and there when they debunk a dungeon or raid mechanic a little too well.
Piles upon piles of evidence of continued harassment and stalking are completely discarded since ‘they can be fabricated’, then they turn around and enable a system where all it takes for you to eat a silence is to have about eight people report you in a short span of time and you’re automatically muted, or even worse, temporarily suspended.
They need to display what their actual objective criteria for reviewing reports is, and just what exactly is actual reportable behaviour.
I have seen that page. I’ve also seen it post a photoshopped image of myself saying something I never actually said and seen it repeatedly make baseless assumptions about my character. If you want to believe what’s on there, then that’s your choice and I won’t try to prove you wrong, but no - I don’t believe it’s a valid source of information.
Sabersoul said some very good things! I still can’t figure out how to do the quote thing argh, but yes, I appreciate people bringing up how some suggestions could have negative impact.
I apologize if I came off harsh in some of my posts. It’s a heated topic. It’s one reason I tend to rant in long walls of text. I’m very worried I’ll miss to provide some context.
People freezing others out is a nasty way of bullying. I’m not sure how one would work around that really if a stronger blocking system was made, especially not with how much the AD RP community has shrunk over the years.
I can see Skullfox’s concern there. It used to be easier to just walk into a hub and pick and choose who you interact with. A hub with less people in it means stuff is less spread out, so you can easily get forced to be near people you’d otherwise avoid.
I still think being able to block people you want to avoid easily would be good though, because chances are you’d be avoiding them either way. It’s just go smoother with a system that allows for it. I could be completely wrong tho. That may be one of those things you gotta test to know for sure.
Obahar raises another good point, but I think one thing that needs to be said there is that the community in each hub of AD can vary GREATLY.
In some hubs you very much have some big guilds that affect most of the plots going on there. Others are mostly individuals so there’s less big group vs group drama going on. A few smaller hubs have even had discords that more or less moderated the entire hub (or tried to) with mixed results. Depending on WHERE you play and with WHO, your experience will be very different.
And before someone goes “just go somewhere else then if you dislike it”, it ain’t always easy to leave a place where you have most of your social circle. Especially if not all are game for coming with you. It can help but it ain’t easy.
I think what you want is attention and you are seeking it in a volatile and disruptive manner.
Pretty much, it’s a constant uphill battle trying to get anything out of CS when it comes to resolving issues between players in any way.
Based on what ive seen you guys do to people here… I really want to believe it… you know? Its your words versus theirs…
Sorry for the derailing, Ruthok. I’ll dip out from here, but credit where it’s due - you’ve put a lot of thought and reflection into some of these posts even if I’ve not been directly engaging with them.
Skullfox, whatever decision you make on believing me, that Tumblr page, both, neither - I hope you’re doing well and will continue to do well. I don’t agree with Dekarn saying this is all for attention personally, but I can see why they came to that conclusion. What I will say is if you have any interest in RPing with or in a PCU guild, then give it a shot. You can always take your character out if the IC or OOC environments aren’t what you personally enjoy. Same with any other guild on the server.
You give me too much credit honestly Dekarn… I actually know you guys make excelent rp events… perfect rp campaigns. and rp… I will never say otherwise.
But that doesnt erease the past… And I want to erease it. I want it badly… I want this bubble hell and amnosity and faction between us as rp’ers to begone more than anyone else… It is the sole reason I hate rp… Why I dont rp. It has taken something so nerdy an innocent as rp. and turned into something so ugly… and I hate it.
I found the quote box thing! I think. Love this. The ticket system (To put it bluntly) kinda sucks. If your issue doesn’t exactly 100% fit any of the suggested ticket topics, you either have to use the wrong category OR pray you don’t get stuck in a loop of links to not at all related informative posts.
And also the “if it’s in a 3rd party we don’t deal with that” rule has some major flaws. Say a guy follows you constantly screenshots you a bunch, then goes on tumblr or discord or what have you and posts some long nasty thing about it. Blizz won’t do a thing, despite the source material coming from their game. There should be SOME kind of responsibility, right?
I know they can’t exactly go and moderate another platform that isn’t theirs, but maybe they could contact the support of that platform and ask that they look into it? Work together? I dunno.
It’s not even just that. They have said that about addons that take place in-game. I remember someone from the forums trying to report a bunch of NSFW TRPs around Stormwind about a year ago (give or take), only to get hit with “it’s a 3rd party addon and we don’t take responsibility for this + you should uninstall the addon if it bothers you”, followed by a passive aggressive comment as a reply to being asked why they didn’t do anything about this even though it took place in-game which went something along the lines of “stop bothering us or we’ll ban the both of you”.
Perhaps you are a good one Obahar… I am sorry too. For this situastion our whole server finds our self in… Or maybe its just in my head that it does… I dont know… I hate it either how…
I feel as an old one… Partly responsible things are the way they are… And i cant get over it.
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Hi Keti! We don’t forget what your guild did either, I say as someone watching the 
show from the sidelines!
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Reach a little harder why don’t you? Come on…