It's so hypocritical — the players whining the most about "oppressive family-friendliness" are the same ones that make as many thinly veiled sex refs in chat and name-call other players whenever someone tells them to stop. It doesn't even take a very long time in-game to realise that Klutch is right. Myself, I was playing for two or three days and already had to deal with the nonsense. I don't know, would loosening restrictions mean these players would lay off on the attempts to get as close to breaking the rules as possible, or would it just give them free rein to act like idiots without any punishment?
~ @reika
One time years ago there was a big thing where staff said no more saying the word.... Donkey. Yeah.
This was in effect I want to say a month or so. This led to attempts to 'not' say donkey by saying things like d0nk3y instead. Of course it didn't work but it happened.
Then staff basically said "No we actually don't care if you say Donkey."
This led to literally everyone saying Donkey for a week or two, with only excessive users getting a kick or something similar to spam more than anything, and then it basically died back to a pretty normal use of the word donkey before it was prohibited again.
I do the the minute staff say 'yeah go nuts' will be a solid month where staff will wanna kill themselves.
Buuuut I also think that we should get that month out of the way while we have a super low count if the goal is to get a higher count.
"But Im a parent or a young child and I dont want my kid/me to see that!"
Cool. I get it. It makes sense. Totally understandable.
Thats why we should have workarounds
/gtoggle, /ttoggle, /wtoggle, will mute those chat rooms.
/mute or /block or something will mute that one guy that wont shut up about donkeys for you alone and you can turn it on and off whenever. You cannot mute staff, but you have no limit on how many players you can mute [bc why would you? If you wanna mute everyone, have at it]
Maybe a /filter that will turn on a profanity filter? Like you know how if you say donkey in chat now it wont send the message. Maybe instead, it sends the message to global normally.
Now, the filter will be 'on' by default. So your little timmy is a little bit safer from the donkeys, at least directly. No one will have a reason to skirt the filter by saying d0nk3y anymore. The command wont be heavily advertised, but itll be known through the player base pretty quickly that it exists.
You can also simply turn off chat in the minecraft client.
Advertising to turn /filter off to lure unknowns unto seeing donkeys will be met with a kick (simply answering a question "how do you turn off the filter" wont).
That helps a little.
Then theres just the fact that youre living in a world where like everyone curses on the internet
"But smart people dont have to curse to hold a conversation!" A. I know I dont have to and B I wouldn't consider myself smart anyway lol.
Your kid is not likely to see anything they wont see at school or on other servers or at their friends house or googling donkeys out of pure childs curiousity.
Of course staff will moderate an excessive use of these words [still no sex refs, drug refs] but Id personally let the lighter or more subtle ones slide because there are a lot of teens and adults that play and dude theyre the ones that are going to give the server money.
Regardless of what happens, I dont think chat will improve without more staff interaction. Ive already written my thoughts on that but short version is staff used to seem to play the server. Not a lot of staff do anymore. Talk to your people more.
Donkey.
