Hi. Recently, I've felt that our current rules do not fit the current meta and playerbase, and are outdated in many aspects. I've been thinking about rewriting them in full, but I figured that a more open approach would allow for everyone to be more content if such a thing happened. I want to use this thread to talk about discrepancies in the system and how to appropriately fix or address them. I believe that the rules are not accessible enough based on website design alone and how they are handled. This leads to a lot of complaints that could be thinned down if people came together and defined the rules in such a way that can make everyone (mostly) happy. I want to use this thread as a placeholder and for people to be critical as much as they please with aspects of the report system also, and how we as a team could possibly improve it or get lucid to notice that it is in need of an overhaul. It's a very daunting task, but I want to believe that the people who spend their time in the complaints section, constantly riding on mods or problems with the site, finally will put their money with their mouth is.
The goal of this thread is to hopefully allow new and old users thoroughly understand the rules more clearly so the amount of reports diminishes and people have a more enjoyable experience.
what if you incorporated the wiki in with the rules page? like have a brief one or two sentence description of each rule, with a link to the wiki page that has a more in-depth description.
also, it'd probably require more coding than lucid is willing to do, but what if there was a 2-step quiz type thing, where when you first register there's a pop up with the basic community rules that are required even in unranked. then after they play their unranked games, there's a 2nd pop up with the game related rules that only really apply to ranked and competition, and maybe a short quiz so they dont just auto close it.
it'd be like a really short tutorial almost. and that way, they have a chance to get familiar with the less intuitive rules. idk.
also i think the mod discretion vio is a terrible idea, unless there was a condition where like, at least 3 mods and the admin agree, or something along those lines. and even then it seems like it would be abused.
I know mostly only 6 or so people contributed but I really appreciate the feedback. I'm sure connor will have his say when he wakes up too and probably Zovea and co but hey.
deleteddeletedabout 11 years ago
Alright. We're (though it's literally mostly me with Sims' blessing) gonna try and shorten the rules down so they are more accessible and streamlined to newcomers and are written in such a way that are better defined without allowing users to find loopholes in them. I'll also work on trolling and such.
it's just not a descriptive name. call it intentional bad play then.
deleteddeletedabout 11 years ago
Trolling's a really good violation when you have a dimwit fakeclaiming cop continually or something like that. It's not enough for GT but should be punished either way.
deleteddeletedabout 11 years ago
im not exactly sure why trolling needs to be eradicated from ranked games, its p much light gt
trolling is kinda redundant now that HC, GT, spamming, isp, lobby camping, banned user, exist. can't think of a situation where trolling is not one of those
deleteddeletedabout 11 years agoedited
it's an abstruse catch-all term that needs to be treated with less specificity, reworded, or removed entirely
next order of business: trolling. What's the deal??? *passes mic to error*
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deleteddeletedabout 11 years ago
I get that actually. It makes people unable to go through loopholes because the rules are more streamlined so people can't point out one sentence of text and say 'well the rules say this so..'
Can't imagine every time someone tried to say 'well the rules SPECIFICALLY say this'
deleteddeletedabout 11 years ago
i think slow said something a few pages ago
deleteddeletedabout 11 years ago
not a single one of them has made a significant contribution to this thread (they should really keep in mind that they are still part of the community, and not somehow above it) and that really says a lot.
