Right now the mod team is discussing spamming as a vio and we're considering condensing it into one vio. This means that spamming in unranked games will now be a community vio and thus against the rules, contrary to how it is currently moderated. It would also be moderated in sandbox, which it currently isn't.
Right now, we just want to get a consensus of how the site feels about this. Do you think spamming should be moderated in unranked + sandbox?
Should spamming be moderated in unranked and sandbox?
44
No
18
Yes
deletedover 10 years
you already get temporarily muted for spam i think that is enough
Yeah i interpreted this as excessive and i think kino's posts confirm that so I think in those extreme cases yes they should get vio's. But theres also spamming in games thats like not a big deal and nobody really gets that annoyed with it. So hopefully the mods can tell the difference, but i think what Kino said and the examples provided prove that they can
there's already a spam penalty in games if you post too many times in a row. maybe adding one of those for vote flashing would help, but aside from that, its not generally a terribly big deal so much as it is a bit irritating. spammers usually get killed by irritated people anyways
deletedover 10 years
Kicking is there for a reason. You kick people you don't want to play with or know are jerks. Leave sandbox alone. We don't need mod favoritism and a whole bunch of new reasons for violations.
to some extent it's fun and okay but that's just really excessive and annoying. sandbox is to have fun and mess around and play-non seriously but spamming to this extent disrupts actually fun, non-serious play
I don't play sandbox so I won't vote in the poll but I thought the point of sandbox was to be able to do all that stuff and mess around without getting reported.
though there should be a voting spam restriction built in anyway like there is for spamming everything else, there's really no reason for there not to be.
there's no reason even if you're silenced to change your vote 100 times in a game esp within a short time frame. even if you turn logs off you still often (because the person doing it wants to annoy and picks the longest name possible) have trouble voting who u want to
spamming has always been moderated on excessiveness, if it's just like 10 long messages in a row it's fine but if it's like the same long message through the entirety of a game it's super annoying and disrupts the game
deletedover 10 years
what about excessive in chat because thts also annoying