[Discuss] Any plans to introduce a new island?

[Jonathon Taylor]

On 21/09/06, Tom Vogt <tom at lemuria.org> wrote:
>
> LilWolf schrieb:
> >> Quick fix: Tell people not to message the whole realm with every
> >> piece of nonsense.
> >
> > That doesn't work. They'll just ask for support from the others
> > responsible for nonsense messages and steamroll over the dissenting
> > voices and the silent majority that doesn't care about anything but
> > getting their hands on the latest orders. They'll say that's what the
> > message system is there for. Some people use it for long OOC talks in
> > front of the whole realm that have nothing to do with the game(e.g.
> > they're getting to know the players behind the characters in front of
> > the whole realm), because that's the only easy mechanism the game
> > provides for discussion with other players.
> Now you know why there isn't a "reply to all" button. It'd make this
> extra-easy. People who keep a discussion running with messages sent to
> everyone are taking an extra step to do so. They are intentionally
> annoying. Put them on ignore.
>
>
> > It just boils down to the issue that the message system does not
> > handle discussion within a small group very well and people are trying
> > to use it as some sort of a forum that allows free discussion about
> > everything.
> Yes, if you use tools for things they weren't build to be, then it gets
> messy. Nothing new there.
>
> > Now, we did talk about this a while ago on IRC and a few ideas were
> > thrown around. I remember most notably personal message groups. The
> > king can already form message groups, why not let an individual player
> > to form a few private groups that only he himself can see and use?
> People wouldn't use it because it's "too much work" to update them every
> now and then.
>
>
> Only thing I see as possible is
> a) user eduction - ok, that was a joke, it never worked in the past in
> any area, why in BM?
> b) adding a "this is spam" button to messages, and locking the "all
> realm" temporarily for people who sent too much spam.



Why not use the same program/facility that is being used in the FEI for
unhonourable messages etc? Etc in this case, for spam where a verdict within
the realm/guild/religion by say, a majority of a certain number of randomly
picked members within the realm/guild/religion have to agree it's spam, and
they're blocked for sending messages for a certain amount of time?


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