To whom it may concern (Page 1 of 2)

You guys are out on the chat mods on every single chance you get.. I don't call this a chance tho.. But still.. I'm wondering.. is it pure jealousy or something else?

Duel is right, a certain select few chat mods prey upon the players so they can have an excuse to mute.  There are supposed to be warnings before an actual mute, however, with some certain Moderators such as slayer1, choose to mute right off the bat and not even for avoidance of filter.  As a paying player myself, I am just blown away with how faldon has changed, the chat filter in my opinion is not only over kill, its stupid.  The chat filter was made to protect the weak minded and weak hearted from vulgarities and twisted statements, when in actuality; life outside of faldon is completely more fucked up than what is going on inside the game.  There should be an automatic filter with an on/off switch, if a player chooses to turn off the goddamn filter, so be it.  I understand this is private property and personal rights are out the window but there have been several occasions when I have personally been muted, and even fucking ip banned for absolutely nothing by GM Alumet.  Zer, read this and consider changing the policy, everyone who isnt an idiotic gm ass kisser will agree this filter is over kill and unnecessary. 

Yours sincerely,

The Best Soldier Alive.

You say you have the freedom of speech ? well this is private property and if zer says no then its his rules; you say that then tell me why kids in school get detentions and suspensions for these types of threats and vulgarities that you people make and at the workplace why do people get fired for acting in such a manner? Don't get me wrong i swear, but as i said before i don't log on to faldon to harass people i don't know to attempt to get a rise out of them like a lot of you guys do.
To me; it seems like the only weak minded and weak hearted people are the ones complaining because they can't deal with change
People do care about scams because zer has taken time out of his day to help sort some of the recent situations out as I am one of the people he has helped, along with the help of rick and a player who I actually am honored to know and rewarded for helping me get my account back and situated.
Also you guys don't realize (or at least pretend to not realize) that most of the people being muted are habitual offenders that do it on purpose
You're arguing that the game should be allowed to be one big rage fest where harassing and swearing at people and name calling is supposed to be a game that a lot of people would want to play.  Then you say that anybody who disagrees is an idiot or an ass kisser? Get some real supportive reasons to argue your point, because i would LOVE to hear a real reason.

Last edited by JuZa (April 5th, 2010 11:37 AM)

What is disrespectful is that for as long as I have played, which is too long, there has always been the option for those easily offended, to go and click Enable Swear/Curse Chat filtering under the Parental Control. Now however management has deemed that we are unable to decide for ourselves, and has made a mandatory filtering system complete with moderation. I guarantee majority of players on this game are against the chat filter, AND majority are of age to make decisions for themselves in that regard.

I understand that new players may not know about that parental control system and to entice new players it may be best for filtering to be set on by default. There should however be an option to completely remove filtering AND chat moderation, and this is visible to only those who also choose to opt out.

Just like Google will not bow to China's censorship demands, neither will the King of Midgard!

Duel, if you have the ability to build a semantic chat filter - one that filters out content based on its overall meaning taken within the context of the conversation, rather than just targeting single 'bad' words - I think Zer would gladly replace the existing swear filter with it and then there would be no need for chat mods.  In fact, if you were able to build said filter, I'd be willing to wager that you could license the technology out for tens of millions of dollars and land yourself a posh job in Microsoft or Google Research labs.

In the meantime, however, it is still the case (as Zer pointed out) that it's possible for a person to go on a racist diatribe without ever using the n-word, and thus moderators are their replacements.

I've been giving this a fair bit of thought, and I have to agree with Duel on this. The chat filter that has been set in place, seems.. well silly. Especially if you tell us it's only in broadcast, you can say what you like in yell/newbiechat ect.

I have looked, and there is a checkbox under options, and it says "Enable Swear/Curse Chat Filtering" why is that not enough? And if it Really is to just get rid of racism, why not then just censor the racist terms? Then if anyone decided to be "cute" about shortening the term or going around the filter, then the chat mods can step in, or for excessive use of swearing or spam.

Faldon has been a place of many arguments, heated debates, ect. The game has always kept on going, and if it isn't broke, don't fix it. By putting this in place, you have pleased nobody. Nobody, aside from the "ass kissers" that have been made chatmods because of this, are in any way welcoming of this change to the community.

The frustration caused by this game via scammers, low % drops, pking, or just overall irritation from anything in game, people like to be able to vent that stuff. It isn't harmful, aside from maybe young minds, but swearing doesn't do anymore harm than the greedy nature and cutthroat antics of the game itself.

I really hope you rethink this whole mess of being a censor, everytime I log on I just hear people complaining about it. It shouldn't be headline news. People should be talking about improvements or new items or ideas. Yadda yadda

;TLDR

The chat censor is silly since it's only bcast that is filtered
The chatmods Do abuse their power, because you gave "firearms" to powerhungry eleventeen year olds.
If racism is the key, filter racism, not swearing, there is already a checkbox for it in options.

I wasnt really talking about mod's b eing ass kissers, I know youre not Insert.  So remember, FUCKS WIT YA BOY

I for one am sick of everyone listening to the ones agreeing and just agreeing more and no one is looking at the nay sayers point of view at all.  ALL the chatmods are agreeing with the current chat regulations cause they wanna stay chatmods, this just proves they are greedy and do not deserve it...  i take that back somewhat... i have seen insertname and maximus say they don't like the filter system yet they enforce it.   Any respectful faldon player would want that freedom back, to deny it is just kissing ass and trying to get undeserved powers so they can get back at those who they know will never get that power simply by association.

RP you make the argument for naysayers look weak, as i have said i am always willing to argue but there needs to be valid points; none of which you have made. I won't argue your way that's for sure, because it is a pointless and asinine argument when all you do is throw around insults at one another.
You claim that its harmless and that you aren't abusive and then yet you behave the same way you have been posting your last couple of posts here; in game. Then its just always an ulterior motive for anybody who disagrees with you because they cannot possibly disagree with you? You and Duel called me ignorant in game, but what i just said about you; proves pure ignorance, to think that anybody who disagrees with you has something to gain by disagreeing with you is ridiculous..
People have opinions!? No way!

1.  Way to steal your rant from Happy Gilmore.

2.  Explain to me how your idea of "opting out" protects players who don't want to be harassed by people yelling racial epithets.

Wu youre just a washed up american, with no purpose in life.  I was ip banned for saying HAHA by alumet, thats why i fuck with her.  Please, if youre going to log on after 20 years of inactive service get your shit right faggot.