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Originally posted by Com013
I am for a more brutal solution. Filters will always be by-passed.
This is my idea:
- PMs
When you are sending a PM with a bad word the word will not be removed, but all your posts during this online session will be logged on the server and you get "swear points" depending on the word you used.
As soon as you reached a certain ammount of points (mass-PMs will get you a lot of points!) you are banned from sending PMs and something like a global police will check every PM of you saved on the server. They will decide to enable PMs for you again or even to ban you completly.
I was writing that the words should not be filtered out, because then the people will try to find out how the filter works, which words it knows, etc.
- Mass-PMs / toalls
Those can cause a greater damage, and so they should be filtered out completly when they are containing an insulting word. You are banned from writing Mass-PMs and toalls imediatly until one of the global "Chat Police" members enables it for you again.
- Banning / Chat Police
When I am speaking of this I mean global banning (chat-only, or from the whole game). The police should be global because sometimes playerworlds might be afraid to ban because their playercount would drop.
- Protocol of the chat
Toalls and Mass-PMs should always be saved on the server.
PMs to a single person are saved, but unless you used a bad word they will be deleted after you logged off - not for privacy but for storage reasons.
If you complain about privacy you can use e-mails and programs like PGP. You don't need privacy on Graal.
- Trial-Accounts
Since the players are risking no money for Trial-Accounts we need to be stricter here - the rules I wrote for mass messages would aply for single PMs, too. The police will not check you, so you will be chat-banned forever (or until you pay - then the police will check you).
- Recognising of bad words
We need a better way to recognise words than just looking for some words in the database.
Spaces and special characters would be removed, before checking for words. Some letters of other languages would be reduced to the simple latin letters: ÖöÜüÄä -> OoUuAa.
Yes, removing special chars/spaces can cause wrong hits, but you are only banned from chatting (you can still play) and the chat-police should unban you soon.
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Nice layout and thought out BUT it bypasses the responsiblity of the Manager and Staff of each Player World , who are the ones responsible for regulating this kind of behavior.It also creates more work on Stefan and Unixmad not to say giving more headaches by adding more Global RCs which in turn they also will have to be monitored for abuse. There is a simple solution to all this and requires nothing more nor anymore Staff , this is to crack down on Playerworlds who do not enforce Graal rules.If a PlayerWorld cannot control the Players from violating Graal rules and no Manager can be found to run it as it should be , then the Player World has to be taken down, removed from the Graal Community for the good of the Community. This MUST be done on ALL PlayerWorlds not just a few or the problem will persist.
All PlayerWorlds need to have the server rules reviewed to make sure they are using the Graal Rules and not some modified version of them. The Rules also need to be posted on their website for public access for all players of that PlayerWorld or anyone thinking of playing it. All Staff rules also need to be posted there and reviewed by Nemesis and his Staff for compliance to the Graal Rules. Standardizing of rights need to be established for ALL PlayerWorld Staff. Too many times PlayerWorlds have Staff that have rights they have no business with (ie FAQ with jailing and banning rights etc..) Admins with the same rights as the Managers , this will only cause problems for the server. NO ONE except the Managers should have all rights to any server rights like serveroptions, edit folder rights , folder config, change rights, change Staff accounts , these rights should be reserved for Managers ONLY . These are the rights that control the entire server which he/she are responsible for.These are things that should have been addressed long ago and something I have already been talking to Unixmad to some degree and I will continue to do so.