Nitex Posted December 7, 2022 Posted December 7, 2022 This message is not directed at any specific player, guild, or staff member. Over the past few weeks I've seen the trash talking reach levels that go beyond acceptable levels. It's gotten to a point that I believe is detrimental to the overall game experience and unfortunately we may have to start taking action if it continues. We're all here because we enjoy the game. At the end of the day, regardless of guild affiliation or competition -- we love the game and we play because we enjoy it. We have members from dozens of countries that speak dozens of language and each share their cultures. Competition is healthy and some trash talk is okay but when it turns into racism, personal attacks, or harassment it becomes detrimental to the server and demotivates players. This is a competitive game and there's nothing wrong with competition -- but lets leave it at that. Personal insults aren't necessary. Just PK each-other. Absolutely no one is except from these rules, and everyone will be held to the same standards. "Who started it" is irrelevant, it's whoever participated in hate speech or harassment. Rules & Enforcement At the bottom of this post, under the orange section, you will find the specific rules that will start being enforced to all members of the community. Action taken before this post is forgiven, but now that everyone is on the same page I'd like to ask everyone to follow these rules. Enforcement To ensure that the rules are fairly and impartially enforced, I will be reviewing all reports personally. The ticket system has been updated to include a report category. Chat Logs Chat logs will be reviewed and action will be taken once confirmed. This is an example of chat logs in-game: Mutes, Account Restrictions, and Bans The action taken will depend on the severity of the harassment or hate speech. Mutes When someone is muted in game, they will be blocked from all in-game communication channels. When the mute expires, all chat functions will return to normal. Bans Depending on the severity, a ban may be issued instead of a mute. Future Considerations Given all that's happened, I think now that I've made this clear and made a post making sure that everyone is on the same page I have hopes this will clear things up and the hate speech will stop. If it continues to be a problem or if I end up having to spend too much time reviewing the reports, the muting/bans will be automated based on a machine learning model that will analyze the chat logs and take action. This is actually pretty common in both the social network industry and the gaming industry. For those interested in how the automated system would work (if implemented) you can read more about it here. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Social mistreatment and Harassment: A. Spam/Flood: Flooding the in-game chat with repeated messages is not allowed. B. Racism and Hate Speech: Hate and abuse can take many forms including; racism, antisemitism, religion, misogyny and LGBT, and cultural abuse. Avoid at all costs, insulting someone based upon their country, sex, culture, sexuality, lifestyle or skin-color. Trash talk is one thing, but harassment and hate speech is another. This also includes but is not limited to character and/or guild names. C. Harassment: Defined as damaging the other players experience voluntarily and put all efforts to mistreat them. If you feel like someone is annoying you, add them to your blacklist so you can't see what they write in game. It becomes harassment if the player then dodges the blacklist filter by creating alts to PM you, guild names, pet names etc. Harassment is a serious offense punishable by account restrictions and potential bans. 3. Staff Impersonation: It is strictly forbidden to impersonate any person. This includes, but not limited to; Dekaron Rising Staff and other players. 1 Quote
