[DEPRECATED] Community-Driven Silence Program (!report)

[Rab]

is this in reference to tower who just copies and pastes random medical info from wikipedia?

And people who constantly provoke arguments about politics, race, religion, gender, etc.
Twitter, basically.

[Diakka]

is this in reference to tower who just copies and pastes random medical info from wikipedia?

[Aprix]

People aren't more fragile. The chat is worse. Pub in particular has two main kind of chat trolls. Those who make everything about race, gender, politics, religion - which is always going to offend someone. And those who target individuals, bullying basically, I regularly log in to messages with various insults. Staff knows who they are. Staff does nothing.

people can still use ?ignore, there's just no argument that can change this.. let people speak freely, there's enough censorship on the internet already

just stop wasting time on things like this

[Rab]

Really? This is dumb as fuck guys. I understand that some people are annoying and say stupid shit, but that's why ?ignore is a thing. It's worked fine for 20+ years. Why are people so fragile now?

People aren't more fragile. The chat is worse. Pub in particular has two main kind of chat trolls. Those who make everything about race, gender, politics, religion - which is always going to offend someone. And those who target individuals, bullying basically, I regularly log in to messages with various insults. Staff knows who they are. Staff does nothing.

[Exalt]

Really? This is dumb as fuck guys. I understand that some people are annoying and say stupid shit, but that's why ?ignore is a thing. It's worked fine for 20+ years. Why are people so fragile now?

[Jason]

Also, please see the community driven faggot reporting program: https://forums.trenchwars.com/forum/...orting-program

Per the linked program description, regarding fraudulent reports:

Fifth offense -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 365 day tailpiping by leviathan


Is that an all-day-long tailpiping? Are we talking 365x24=8760 continuous hours of tailpiping? By a lev, no less? I assume we are associating girth of ship with, uhhh.... widening of tailpipe.

[Platinum]

Not me, but impressive policing


https://chrislipjournal.files.wordpr...ynordquist.jpg

[ronaldinho]

faggot spotted oliceman:

[Platinum]

Amongst the TW population are a lot of closeted gays. They generally are hyper anti-gay. We should continue to ensure that TW is a community accomodating to these folks as they work through their demons.

[Myollnir]

players should have the right to make stupid jokes and be themselves (even if it gets a dew people read killed) direct hate is usually escalated by both players so no one wins if they both get punished.also people could just report players if they get owned for revenge

[hellmouth]

Also, please see the community driven faggot reporting program: https://forums.trenchwars.com/forum/...orting-program

[qan]

Update to this command as of 2/3/20:

Chat logs of what the reported person has said are now attached to the report. The reports themselves are not valid outside of a certain time frame; however, the snapshot of chat will remain available forever, and will be able to be seen by ban operators in an easily-accessible format that's already streamlined into their existing workflow. (I would have found a way to work "synergy" into that sentence but I've never worked in a corporate office before, so my power level is as of yet insufficient.)


What this means: If you use !report to report someone who's using racist language, making death threats, encouraging suicide, etc., even when there are no available mods, ban operators will now have a chance to review chat, and have the option to punish after the fact for violations. When in doubt, report it and let the record stand for itself.

!report can still also be used to report chat that you simply don't like/find offensive but does not strictly violate any of TW's rules, or doesn't violate them explicitly enough to warrant punishment in normal situations.

[Scar Trek]

I support this initiative. Make sure to include the new command in the in-game command list, accessed by F2, if possible.

Healthy and friendly pub chat/ community, leads to fun and thriving community. And I'm guessing pub is where players start out 9 outta 10 (some even stick to that mostly), so don't underestimate the importance of a healthy, thriving pub.

[Ippo]

Okay if it takes a threshold, why is it even a thing? It's basically telling people "You can be a dick, racist, zealot, spit pedophilic bullshit (Jehu), but not for too long." If you want the overall chat to improve, start with the main people always starting shit with people, Tower, Jehu, Manco to name a few, they don't play, they do nothing but sit in spec and spit off nonsense to the point that we HAVE to ignore him, it should not reach that point. Antagonizing people with nonsense, and keep getting worse and worse until people stop responding in both spec and pub, should be handled a lot better, and with less bias.

[qan]

This does nothing when reports are ignored. I've reported Tower for racism constantly, and it's ignore, but damn I tell him to suicide once and I get banned. Welcome to TW in 2019, SJW heaven.

Reports aren't ignored; however, single reports are NOT sent to the moderating staff. Mods are able to view who has been reported, however.

If someone is using racism or evading ignores, please use ?cheater to report them. (In the case of ignore evasion, please also take multiple screenshots, or even a video via your phone.)

If instead they are simply acting in a way you don't like (whether it is swearing, talking about religion/politics, talking trash, or even just talking too much), you should use !report. Then encourage others to report them (if you wish). When a threshold for reporting the undesirable speech is close to being reached, an additional message will trigger, asking other players to report. Finally, once the reporting threshold is crossed, the report will be sent to moderation staff, at which point staff are all but obligated to silence the person.