CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.03.29 05:40:00 -
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 Salutations! I am daring to add my charcter's name to the front end of this thread, because I want to be counted as one of the members in the New Eden playground who openly applauds what CCP has announced here.
In the Dust forums alone, it's clear to see that there are always some numbers in the community (any community I guess) who disturb the party mood by deliberately trying to provoke real-world social harassment, or who just naturally carry socially-hurtful ideas inside them wherever they go, or who just have the compulsion to see a rule and want to break it. Many, MANY other gaming creators before Dust have set up clear "Rules" about harassing behavior too, and posted perfunctorily stern "warnings" against rule-breakers.
I'm among the players who argue that, against all but the most extreme harassers, those rules and warnings on those sites were pretty much impotent, and a continuing percentage of the sensitive-minded players would feel socially victimized and leave the game's community.
EVE Online/Dust 514 is SO bent on "SOCIAL" being the tool to accomplishing things between capsuleers (and the strategic planner for the team-driven combat between mercs) that this game stands to suffer arguably more damage than those other games, if CCP allows its social forum interaction to be interferred with by any amount of real-world (noob, jihad, homosexual, any etc) harassment. I was hoping that the creators might decide to make a new Mission Statement or declaration, to let players know that Dust's game developers plan to protect their investment.
So I am groovy-glad to see CCP make this statement, and potentially start a quiet DED-style, direct-enforcement war on this subject. Dust 514 has been the most bold-positioning, controversially experimental, forward-aiming, debate-causing, gutsy, and evolution-minded "Shooter-game" I've ever encountered in my social gaming life. I have my fingers crossed that CCP can be the one who starts the evolution in online game forums, where the forum is STRONGLY PROTECTED by social guidelines that no longer permit the 3 options of "follow the rules", "skirt the rules", "screw the rules and log back on with a new character ID",... and instead will make players feel they're stuck with TWO real options: Be truly sociable, or Be wormholed out of the forum entirely.
The issue of forum harassment is THAT important. |
CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
139
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Posted - 2014.03.31 18:45:00 -
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ghtyui fdaqq wrote:Kain Spero wrote:It can not be emphasized enough that as a community we should be aware of the line between the game and real life and always respect that line when it comes to topics such as harassment and real-life threats. Dude your gay, go farm isk in PC by not fighting and getting everyone else to not fight, cause they took away your keys to the lock. Whod of thought the guy who doesnt want to fight thinks that the video game nerds are a real life threat.....? Ok CCP has to do some CYA here but lets be real, real life harassment, really?
 Wow...
I can see here (anyone can see here) from the WIDE point-of-view spread in these posts, that the issue is REAL.
If you're confusing Character-wallets/Corporation-accounts trickery with PSN ID account trickery, then CCP has some work to do making the difference clear to players.
If you've found that, on other game sites, members can successfully assassinate other members through false accusing, thus creating the need for a separate police department to hunt down the fake-911 call (Yikes!), then that's one of the important challenges in store for CCP on this subject.
If you think that the "sissy, New Eden Racism, trash talk used to provoke and create grudge matches between players" is what we are referring to when we say "Harassment", then you're looking at the wrong thing.
If you don't understand by now that "harassment" is in the way the RECEIVER is vulnerable to being injured by what's being said, not in the way the SENDER wants her words to be interpretted... that's okay, you're not stupid for not knowing. It's a concept that has historically been hard for people to get their heads around.
It's not just that this Dust forum site could end up a full of predators and victims as other game sites (EVE online to a certain degree too, from what I hear). It's that, as CCP implies, WE WANT SOME OF THE NAME-CALLING, PROVOKING, PUG-TALK to BE in the fourm. It's necessary for the character decepitons, trust-breaking, grudge-baiting, corp-infiltration, and scheme-hatching that is supposed to be part of the social nature of Dust, as we mercs try to establish business dealings with capsuleers in the furture.
It's the real-world references that we don't need in our fourm at all, because it's going to get in the way of our honest character-scheming and merc-business-making. I don't need to grab a term from a Muslim dictionary to trash-talk an Amar player; he doesn't need to name his Dust character Super**^$ or Kevin Bacon,... and BOTH actions are in violation of CCP's member account agreement.
CCP's big trick will be how to keep the New Eden-slanted bad behavior in the forum (it's valid!), but accurately jump on us every time we insert REALWORLD-slanted profanity, realworld people, or realworld subject matter into the fourm.
That would be a ground-breaker in gamer forums... |