World Chat and Your Rights

[Bigdaddypedo]

Dear fellow Nostalrius members,

It has come to my attention that players having admin privileges in "World" chat is a detriment to the Horde and Alliance a like. From a completely objective standpoint, this function is a fully intentional design on behalf of Blizzard Entertainment. Private channels are designed to have a moderator for obvious reasons. At this point in the private server era, the aspects that make private channels private, do not apply to "World." This idea of a select few individuals creating a tight nit social community in a private channel is a beautiful thing; yet this absolutely has no grounds when it comes to "World." "World" has become what Vanilla "LFG" used to be."World" is where social aspects of the game have a place to flourish. It has become a place where all players search for dungeons, crafters, simple economic exchanges and even mere social interactions. The dynamics have changed, and a new precedent has been set in place. With only a minor subset of the population using other default channels, to be banned from the widely popular "World" chat places an immense hindrance on game play. Any experienced MMORPG player would agree that social dynamics of a game are the key to success ie: raiding,dungeons,crafting,etc. This is why I propose moderation of "World."

Before you lose your shit. I propose moderation of players having admin rights, not content moderation. Content moderation would only destroy the beauty that the GMs/Devs/Owners have created but putting this server online.

A simple fix would be in order, it would require minimum effort. I spoke with a GM concerning the matter of being banned myself, he offered no immediate solution. To put it simply, a character operated by a GM/Dev would simply be logged in 24/7 and be the moderator of the chat. Thus denying players the ability to ban others from such a critical element of the game. I urge all members of the community to support this effort. Thank you for your time.

TLDR: Have NOS moderate admin privileges in world

http://southpark.cc.com/clips/254819/insanely-good-sense Relevent.

[OGTUCKER117]

I support this

[Linc]

/join LookingForGroup is official (Also blizzlike).
World chat is custom and not official. Stop spam this world channel QQ on the forums.

[Bigdaddypedo]

Your reading skills are superb, thanks for the input.

[The Shortest Path]

"world chat" is not a thing. The private channel named "world" is just that - a private channel. Nothing should change about that, because it wasn't a thing in retail either.


With 2-3 thousand people on each faction constantly, having one global channel would be a massive clusterfuck even if it was moderated, anyway.

[Amitriptyline]

It is a global channel, not local. It reaches the entire faction, socializing for the entire faction. The moderation of it is being abused in a big way, that should change

[Gtcow]

The world chat is a mess. The last time I joined it, a third was writing random things, the rest was looking for a group or a tank. The spam was real. With this population and its current state I don't understand why someone would like to join "world".

Therefore, why do people join a "world" chat while there is a LFG one which is also worldwide ?
Why not making a system message at the connexion of our characters to "/join LookingForGroup in order to fastly find a team" ? I'm pretty sure a part of the population don't even know its existence. Another solution would be to automatically make players join LookingForGroup.

Anyway, world chat can't be moderate for now.