Ok let me clarify things a bit. The increasing excessiveness and vulgarity of said "Trashtalking" is what is making us have to go to these types of actions. If it was a simple as you= no good fine, ok part of gaming we get that. But when it comes down to making fun of a persons family, personal appearance, religion or, heaven forbid, race that in my personal AND professional opinion is taking WAY across the line. More and more of the comments we are deleting, not only on a daily basis but more like hourly, are are either aimed at completely disrespecting or degrading someone. We do not expect everyone to be 100% "carebears" all the time but really? stooping to the level that it has been the last couple of months is really making me question the morality of some people. Not to mention the excess stress added to the staff, BUT what people don't seem to take into consideration is that we are here to try and not only entertain but to keep the peace on the server and the more "drama" we have to deal with the less time we have to run events, whether they be PvE OR PvP.
From what I've seen, xpen made many videos which would provoke artifex into trashtalking, and I haven't seen artifex do it. Which may be why xpen threads are locked or even deleted.
i doubt this is very much about the "ypu are noob" and "you are bad" comments and more about the stuff others have mentioned before - making fun of others family, skin colour, religion, or just beeing extremy insulting in any way.
EPW is a game. Please remember that. I feel like GMs should be prioritised to keep the GAME running fluently and priorities should be muting the keyboard warriors in WC after PKs; rather than locking pointless video threads. This game is getting more and more into a forum. Most of us came here to play a GAME, the forum is an add on where people can talk and make frens. c:
If anyone should be punished for the behavior of the few who take this game too seriously, it should be the people posting hostile/hateful things just because they were on the other side of a youtube video. Penalize the tryhards. Not the video posters who took time to produce a video for entertainment only to have it locked because someone got mad at them.
I feel like the ideal option is that people could just stop spewing hate speech on other people's threads. People shouldn't be bitter enough to write an essay about how much they hate someone just for posting a video. Everyone gets into their little back and forths at times, but it would be cool to see a video post that didn't turn into a shit storm within minutes. If anyone should be punished for the behavior of the few who take this game too seriously, it should be the people posting hostile/hateful things just because they were on the other side of a youtube video. Penalize the tryhards. Not the video posters who took time to produce a video for entertainment only to have it locked because someone got mad at them. We can say trashtalking is part of the game and it's fun. It is. However, people get way too serious about it, and it almost always gets out of control. People who play for no other reason than to elicit negative responses from other players simply shouldn't be allowed to do so anymore. So many daily problems could be solved right there.
Penalize the tryhards. Not the video posters who took time to produce a video for entertainment only to have it locked because someone got mad at them.