PS nowadays

[Proglin]

Inappropriate logs removed. The issues are serious, but our forum rules still stand.

Now... dear GM's and ctizens of PS. I know these are just logs and they are easely tempered with, so they will not do as proof to kick these people out of here. This is a game, you do not know who or what is on the other side of the world, talking with you. Mane people come in PS with honourable intentions, and they can even become great friends.

For those who herassed people, those who scolded at people... think twice before you even think of saying anything like this, you have no clue how much damage you can do with something as simple as text. and GM's, I understand uyour situation and respect the system of not trusting logs, one thing i'd like to know though... Is a GM allowed to make a judgement call in situations like these? Cause I'd HATE to see yet another 14 year old girl, terrified like hell, come running towards me saying she was herassed in a ... "Game"

Just to gicwe a sligh indication of what we are actually facing... all this was said in the past 7 days... imagine how much was said in a month.

[acraig]

I am aware of one current situation and measures have been taken, if this is a seperate incident then that makes me angry and we will take a strong stance against this. 

[Xordan]

I think this is seperate to the last incident that happened a few days back. There were always going to be idiots like this in the game. We just need to work out how to deal with them in the best way for everyone.

[Karyuu]

This shouldn't have been posted publically, but brought up to those who have the ability to deal with such issues. GMs will try to be around in-game more and more. Also please remember /report.

[ThomPhoenix]

It's a shame such sick people express their sick feelings in Planeshift. Ban 'em all, we don't need them.
But Karyuu is right, the moment someone starts to talk to you like that report them and ask a GM to monitor that person's chat for evidence. A /warning, /kick or even /ban is quickly made then.

[zorbels]

says: [also spare me your threats. parents have a responsability to make sure their children are not playing games like this.]

I wonder if this creep even read anything about this game, because children ARE allowed to play this game. (Small ones should have the super vision of an adult)

This really flippin ticks me off when people think like this, and I am guessing this person is not a parent. Judging by what you have posted ... he/she isn't very mature either and seems very selfish.

Listen up to all of you who think that the responsiblilty relies on the parent. To a certain extent it does. I have stated in another thread that I would be checking up on my daughter every 15 minutes or so to see how she was interacting with the game .... and also checking over her logs to make sure there wasn't anything that shouldn't be going on. What I can't stand is that statement above though. A Parent can't be everywhere all the time. If I had to follow her around and check up on every little thing I would have no time for myself and be constantly chasing after my daughter. That wouldn't be a healthy relationship as she would feel more like a prisoner than a person with rights. Further more I wouldn't have to watch out for her so much if there wasn't happy aholes like this one above. It is ALSO the responsibility of the players and the Gm's and the Devs to watch out for the children in this community. This is a game for all ages. I am responsible for my child yes, but players are responsible to keep there mouths clean and understand when playing this game that there are children playing it. Gm's and Dev's are responsible for enforcing the rules if they are not kept. It is all to easy sometimes to blame the parents when things go wrong ......

[Proglin]

I offer my appolagies for posting the logs like that, I did not know about these rules. I left out names accordingly. And to make muself a little clearer. The comments in the logs, were maid by 4 different induviduals.

[Xordan]

Listen up to all of you who think that the responsiblilty relies on the parent.

Personally, I wouldn't recommend allowing a child under the age of 10 play PS (Or any MMO... except maybe ToonTown Online) unsupervised. Parents should play _with_ the child. If PS were commercial and published it would probably be given a 'Teen' rating due to the violence. Most MMO's are. This is definately not a game for all ages to play unsupervised GM's and devs can only do so much to keep the idiots supressed.

[zanzibar]

I offer my appolagies for posting the logs like that, I did not know about these rules. I left out names accordingly. And to make muself a little clearer. The comments in the logs, were maid by 4 different induviduals.

Or one person using four different characters?  I haven't seen the logs so I'm not sure what all this is about, but it seems pretty clear after reading the responses.

[zorbels]

Listen up to all of you who think that the responsiblilty relies on the parent.

Personally, I wouldn't recommend allowing a child under the age of 10 play PS (Or any MMO... except maybe ToonTown Online) unsupervised. Parents should play _with_ the child. If PS were commercial and published it would probably be given a 'Teen' rating due to the violence. Most MMO's are. This is definately not a game for all ages to play unsupervised GM's and devs can only do so much to keep the idiots supressed.

This I understand and I am sure you guys have your hands full with idiots. The Gm's and Dev's do a good job of it as I haven't seen a huge amount of jerks. THANK YOU! *hands out cookies*  I also agree with the supervision as I stated in my post above. I think it is only common sense for parents to supervise their children in activities like this.

  I am merely trying to point out that players also have a responsiblity (Mostly to the sicko who this thread was started about), as do the parents and Gm's and dev's. It doesn't just boil down to Suzy wasn't watching her kid joe, though that could be the start to ending the problem before it even becomes one. Lets face it though, not all parents pay attention or care for that matter or just give their children to much credit. So this is where sometimes it falls on the community as in player Gm and devs.

[LARAGORN]

I think posting this here was a good idea. this way it lets everyone know this is not acceptable. I know it is in the rules but, i doubt people of this character even bother with reading any rules and guidelines. Bringing issues like this to the public can only make things better in our PS world. IMHO

[Karyuu]

The problem is that the problem-players are in-game, not on the forums. People on the forums already know what is not acceptable behavior, so in a way this is preaching to the choir. Even if we are all aware of the problems, we still have to find better and better ways of dealing with them - which is ultimately a GM/dev job.

[Peacer]

hmm i didn't see thoose logs, or red them before they got removed but i think i have an idea what this is about though...

[dying_inside]

If only there were a way to literally /kick these types of mug....

[Xordan]

Well the easy way to prevent them from being around is to require a credit/debit card and other details on registration so we have proof of identity. This would a) discourage them from joining if they just want to be a pain. b) mean that a ban really is perminant. There's no way to make another account legally.

But that would be really restrictive and basically suck for the players. It would also make some people think twice about signing up, people who we want to play and would benifit the game and the community. So it's not really a option.

For now, improving our logging a bit more, improving our filtering system, and making sure that there's a GM around with the ability to deal with these situations will work fine I think.

Is chat filtering on by default?