Lionz Heartz wrote:
Great feature and I hope to see this on the forums also? What will be the ETA for a block feature on the forums? |
Answered already elsewhere, but to repeat... It's not going to happen anytime soon, if ever.
The forums are third-party written and hosted, and - whilst we can customise the software if we wish - we're really not interested in doing that. Not only does it mean that upgrades/changes are very cumbersome, it also takes dev time away from game improvements.
Our internal dev team is concentrating on making
the game itself better rather than on customising external forum software.
tbh I believe most of the forum troll issues can be dealt with in terms of policy and (thence) enforcement rather than "new software" or software rewrites.
At the moment our forum receives an average of 30 posts a day from an average of 20 different posters. If that pitifully small volume can't be dealt with sensibly without software rewrites then we're doing it wrong to begin with - and so... I think we probably are doing it wrong, and we need to change it.
And by "it" I mean purely and simply writing policies for each forum regarding trolls, acceptable language and behaviour etc, and then enforcing these policies to ensure the signal to noise ratio doesn't deteriorate further than it has currently.
What is suitable for the Bitter Sea forum is different to what is suitable for the Announcements forum.
MOD Strategos is currently coming up with a list of forum policies that deal with various issues from trolling to posting in various forums, and as soon as these are agreed internally then we'll make them public and begin enforcement of them.
Regards,
SC
Edited by GM Stormcrow - 01 Apr 2011 at 20:05