Sorry if some of this has been mentioned before, I haven’t had chance to go through the full thread yet.
I would love nothing more than the general erp creepers to be out of public eyes, at minimum. Plenty of times a fun interaction with another player turns to them attempting to bed you, Stormwind mainly, and back when I was new that was one of the biggest things that put me off the whole idea of roleplay, and put me off when I first started to explore it.
The same to a smaller degree with heavy recruitment, they both almost make any casual town interaction feel disingenuous, with some other motive always in mind. I don’t have a problem with people recruiting at all, but it feels like people genuinely looking for casual conversation or rp is not around, Orgrimmar seems better in that regard, really.
I’m rambling but what I actually wanted to say was talking about actual solutions to some of these issues. Imagine that hiring more GM’s for rp servers wasn’t an option, or even would be enough anyway, the few things I can think of are things most roleplayers/players in general wouldn’t like very much.
Things like a chat filtration system, where certain phrases come up censored regardless of filter, or don’t get posted into chat at all, with extreme vulgarity flagging a warning outright even. I’d personally be okay with that but I know a lot of people would not, and I can see it causing more issues than it would solve in the beginning.
Censored or flagged TRP profiles is also an option, because of course there’s no reasonable way to expect an addon creator to have to moderate at that level, it would be insane. But again, it’s something a lot of people may not approve, and people can easily create creepy erp profiles without profanity, so it might not even really solve anything.
An option could be that people could flag their profiles as adult, and only others flagged as adult could see those trps. While it doesn’t get rid of it, at least we don’t have to see that garbage, in terms of short term solutions that could help.
I imagine its especially difficult to prove what happened with griefing and stuff on the GM side of things hours or days later, I’m not sure if they even can/do see TRP profiles, and auto-flags and bans are already proven to be abused at times, so I find it difficult to come up with a real solution there.
In terms of /yelling in stormwind interrupting others (I wasn’t there and don’t know any context) If its OOC yelling to advertise something then of course its no good. IC Yelling a lot is quite interruptive to others so I would assume common sense be applied to how much its used, because yes, I think larger events like people have mentioned in towns and such would be great, but if people aren’t interested they should be able to get far enough away from it.
Perhaps reducing how far /yells travel would be a good solution there, and for OOC purposes, a dedicated rp channel might help, though it could be just as prone to bot spam.
For both world travelling RP and town event rp perhaps addons could be a solution for that.
I always thought an addon that people could connect to, and it could show others on their world map where people are, would be nice to see. I know you can scan individual areas and stuff I think with TRP but there’s a lot of zones to scan.
An addon that works like a public calendar or bulletin board could be good too, but could also be prone to spam I suppose.
If any of those do already exist do let me know, as I’d be interested in seeing them!
and I know those solutions will have plenty of flaws but its worth at least discussing approachable solutions here I feel like.
Again, sorry for long ramble!
