MountieXXL wrote: juves can sure be annoying at times but we need to do our part and show them what it's really all about cause we were all little and on top of the world once too..
(These are the thoughts of a cranky old bastard)
I disagree. IMO it's
not our place to show them what it's all about. This isnt Fester's Place of Learning. We are not here to be a shining beacon in the murky depths of the internet, we
are the murky depths, ffs. It is just one server out of thousands, but it is
our server. There is a pool of at least 100 regular players and the server is getting full at peak times, (ie when we all play) quite consistently these days. Recently there's been on average 100 new players coming across the server every day. If only 5% of those return on a regular basis and only 5% of those are juvies, that's another kid or two every week that we potentially have to deal with. Do not want! Just this week, we banned one problem child and are having this bigass debate over another.
I want to be able to enjoy my gaming and chatting without annoyances. I had it this afternoon, joe random connected and started mouthing off straight away. Asked him to knock it off, he didnt. Muted him. Problem solved. To hell with cutting people slack. Zero tolerance, if there's bullshit from any age, warn and then mute/kick/ban. Then as jase says, it'll be a non-issue. We will find replacement players, they will find replacement servers. There are plenty out there that may well be better suited to their wants and needs, although what an alltalk server full of mouthy teens sounds like, I shudder to think.
And if you are still concerned about using the server to teach those oh so important life skills that you can only get from an anonymous foulmouthed and foulminded stranger, well it's possible to learn from observation, no?
Not saying children should be seen and not heard either, there is of course a happy medium between babble and silence.
I dunno, it's late, I'm tired. Maybe I'll have more love for Whitney's Darlings in the morning. Good old coke addict Whitney. Show us the way, lol.