STG, please change your moderator hours...or give trusted forumers theead deletion.

[Dragoonclaws]

I have an evil idea...

The ''bot'' is online right now, what if we spam him with PM saying Hello, the popup might slow them down xD

[obee]

Say players were to be trusted as "Mini-mods", what if they were given a new, anonymous, forum account, that has the power to move/delete the spam (and chat box ban because the Spambot is there too :/). This way, there is no haughty moderators lording over people on the forums and in game, if they do reveal their identity to the players/forumers, their rights to be a mini-mod are revoked and that's that.

I like this better than just plain giving it to people. These accounts should not have a right to PM, type in chatbox, or reply to any threads. These accounts should be just for clearing spam, nothing more nothing less.

[Schnitzel]

I like this better than just plain giving it to people. These accounts should not have a right to PM, type in chatbox, or reply to any threads. These accounts should be just for clearing spam, nothing more nothing less.

but then what about pm'ing the mods the reason for muting the bot?
also, what if the bot spams the chat box?

[Dragoonclaws]

I like this better than just plain giving it to people. These accounts should not have a right to PM, type in chatbox, or reply to any threads. These accounts should be just for clearing spam, nothing more nothing less.

Mods usually explain their deeds in a comment...

Closed the thread for [Insert reason here]
Moved the thread for [Insert...


nah, it would be a moderator account with a different name, different color, and told to stay anonymous.

[bedmaster]

Just make a new office here around asia. Hire some guys to reply and assist asian players (me) when the western guys are sleepin. Soblem prolved.

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Just make a new office here around asia. Hire some guys to reply and assist asian players (me) when the western guys are sleepin. Soblem prolved.

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What's a soblem? Haha

[grzena1982]

There is only one reason why I disagree with Op, namely, some of u are often ***** to other less fortunate players in the game and throguh your connections make their experience with this game less enjoyable. As an example, people getting kicked out of my guild for supposedly begging one of you for smth, a person from entirely different guild, when in fact all they did was to show you blind admiration in broken English.

Not to mention that Sts has still lots of avenues to explore, i.e., measures left on the table that could be implemented to curb bot spamming. Now, why they have not done so after more than 5 past occurances is only for them to know.

Some of you may seek closer integration with the game, wider recognition and privilege to take more active role in governing online community, however, I think i prefer when we all stand at even ground.

Bot spamming is not an issue for me as much as constant beggs and shouts for buffs, nerfs and design changes etc. that lead to actual changes.

[Alhuntrazeck]

-1 to favoring people like that. Serancha's idea's much better and would work.

[Dragoonclaws]

-1 to favoring people like that. Serancha's idea's much better and would work.

No, because the bot program can be changed to read the asked word, then answer to it correctly. There is an Anti-bot system, where you have to write the characters in a picture. I wouldn't like to keep reading those things to create a thread.. I actually hate that system, many would agree.

It's not favouring. They wouldn't choose you because you're a friend, but because you can handle the duty correctly. Anyways, we said that it would be an anonymous mini mod, nothing to show off in that. If you were a mini mod, you'll probably complain about having not enough time to keep it up...

[wvhills]

i'll volunteer.

[Remiem]

I'd go with the thread cool down. Spambot is slower tonight though.

That's what we did. It's currently limited to 5 threads per hour and 30 posts per hour. We set it this way so that it would slow down the bots, but not inhibit our members from making posts and keeping conversations going. So, we'll be continuing our research into how to stop them at the account creation level. Banning IPs is sometimes an option, unless we see that legitimate players are also coming on through the same IP (in the case of a VPN), so it's risky. We wouldn't want to block real people!

[Remiem]

Like Zeus mentioned, we started Guardians of Alterra in the PL days which was similar to player mods. Due to abuse of power, we will not be revisiting the player mod concept. I realize it works for some companies, but for now, it just isn't for us. I hope you understand!

[Zylx]

Or hire international moderators. Giving this kind of power to "trusted" forumers would make everyone else get angry because they aren't "trusted". And its also a good thing this isn't in effect because even a priest can do bad things...

[Dragoonclaws]

Or hire international moderators. Giving this kind of power to "trusted" forumers would make everyone else get angry because they aren't "trusted". And its also a good thing this isn't in effect because even a priest can do bad things...

Take an STS mod as a person. Give it a phone with AL installed in it. Let it play AL.

Now, that person is called an AL player.

Remember that moderators are people like us, and they are getting a salary. That one mod in the other side of the world must get payed as well. It might be someone from us aswell, but payed without being monitored .

[Zylx]

Take an STS mod as a person. Give it a phone with AL installed in it. Let it play AL.

Now, that person is called an AL player.

Remember that moderators are people like us, and they are getting a salary. That one mod in the other side of the world must get payed as well. It might be someone from us aswell, but payed without being monitored .

You see, everyone here (customers) is anonymous to STS. Whoever they hire to moderate their community is not anonymous. Its true that the mods get a salary but however well of a job they do, gets reflected back onto their future opportunities. If they do a terrible job, STS will be a bad reference. Good job, good reference. Giving as much power to someone anonymous, if they go rogue and abuse that power, it doesn't reflect back on their personal lives. So there really is no long-term punishment for us if we mess up, unlike those hired by STS.

[Dragoonclaws]

You see, everyone here (customers) is anonymous to STS. Whoever they hire to moderate their community is not anonymous. Its true that the mods get a salary but however well of a job they do, gets reflected back onto their future opportunities. If they do a terrible job, STS will be a bad reference. Good job, good reference. Giving as much power to someone anonymous, if they go rogue and abuse that power, it doesn't reflect back on their personal lives. So there really is no long-term punishment for us if we mess up, unlike those hired by STS.

Mods are not anonymous to STS...

We are anonymous. You don't give the job to anyone.

Mod are different from Players in many dimensions.

I will agree with Remiem. If it was possible, they will do it. They must have thought about it. They know their needs more then we do. I guess the thread stops here.

[Zylx]

Mods are not anonymous to STS...

We are anonymous. You don't give the job to anyone.

Mod are different from Players in many dimensions.

That is exactly what I said lol

[Dragoonclaws]

*re-reads*


You're right. Sorry, I am a bit too tired...