by Boop » Sun Jan 05, 2014 9:49 pm
In light of this, could you consider a report system?
Context: League of Legends has a 'report' function where you can write to a mod team regarding someone being a jerk. They look into claims and take appropriate action (often being a soft ban of 72 hours or something).
As communication gets larger in this game (implementation of private messaging) this kind of problem will grow. It's natural for problems to grow as you provide more means for it. It'll move from one idiot harassing a guild and develop into single target messages.
Understandable if you don't put in a whole report system (who would monitor it, why, and for what personal benefit?) But a minimum of a 'block user' feature has to come in at some point in time if private messaging does.
Thoughts: If you do have a report message/player function, you could consider hiring esteemed members of the community (maybe 100 or so) to do it? For every 10 reports they filter through, they gain 5 gems or something. Maybe have requirements like - Played for 3 months minimum, above level X, use forums.
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