Global chat is to create an atmosphere of community and a server filled with people, we can trade, help newbs, discuss issues with staff or just to have a chat. It should not be restricted just because we have players that need spanking. The whole community is affected just because we have a small number of players that constantly talk immature stuff to say the least on global and need to be punished/controlled.
I believe there should be just less tolerance for "harassment/spamming/trolling/constant bickering and fighting in global chat", maybe handout more mutes for a period and then again lower the wait period for global messages. I don’t believe that the 35 second wait period is the best idea.
I would like to make a few suggestions which may help clear up the global chat:
- A strike system should be implemented, for example: 3 mutes in a month equals to one week ban or something.
- The rules of using global chat should be written in a very high detail for example: what is "harassment/spamming/trolling/constant bickering and fighting in global chat", everyone should be forced to read them and after that the tolerance for: saying “am best pk” every 20 seconds, fighting who died more times, why skillers may be gay, racism, harassment and ect. should be lowered. The punishment for breaking the rules of ethics on global chat should be written in high detail too.
I believe that just making people afraid to break the global chat rules will make the server a much nicer place to play and newcomers won’t think that the server is filled with nolifing retards. The 35 second rule is just an annoyance and may make the server feel more empty, we just need to punish the ones who break the rules. Thats it.
I personally have quite a few people on my ignore list just to clear up the feeling that the community may have some issues.