Hostable Private Channels

Should make it 10k an hour, not much to pay but will take meeples out of the eco and provide a good source of privacy!!! (With custom password)

 

I actually really like this idea!
+1

 

We had these at one point, but where then taken away for obvious reasons. I totally support this, but at the same time understand as to why this is no longer a thing.

 

Its really easy to set up your own TS server, I have my own for backup and might be willing to let people host channels on it..for a fee.

Message me for info. still working on prices

 

+1

But, if cursing is allowed, the channel should be locked, and have "18+" or "Cursing Allowed" or "Adult Content". Other than that, this is an excellent idea that could get money for the server as well.

 

But then we will have young kids lie about their age to get into the channel.

 

Then we shall see for ourselves if they are 18+/mature or if we trust them or not.

If we don't trust them, no need to give away the pass.

 

I can see how in many ways this would be a nice feature to have, but I believe one bigger downside to it could be making new(er) members feel welcome on Teamspeak. If private/locked channels were to be allowed more than the LoL Locked channel we already have (Let's face the facts here, half of us that use that channel don't even play League of Legends) then I'm pretty sure we'd all be in those channels all the time. Why? Well, because it's more convenient and there's less risk of having someone else join when you're having a private conversation.

I see this is where many people automatically jump over to "Then use Skype." but the truth is, Teamspeak is generally much better in communities such as MeepCraft. With Skype, you must add the person/people you want to talk to and then call them, with the chance they won't answer and whatnot, whereas in Teamspeak you can simply join the channel and start talking to groups of people, vs having to figure out who is having Skype calls with who and when to see if they can add you, dealing with background noise and then for the younger ones, other people having their cameras on and whatnot that possibly prevents them from even being allowed to use Skype. Also, from what I've seen, Teamspeak is generally much safer too.

Back to what I mentioned earlier about making new Teamspeak members feel welcome, if you have everybody down in locked channels it can make it seem like we are trying to conceal something, and are generally less.. friendly? If this doesn't make sense let me know and I can try to explain better, but just as an example; I used to go on another servers' Teamspeak and they did have to it where everybody could control their own channels with passwords and such. It makes you feel unwelcome, left out, in a way. What do you do? Poke someone and ask to join, hoping they don't take you on as rude or interrupting? I've had many cases where I poke someone and they generally don't respond because they're afk, playing a game or just forget to altogether. Having everybody in unlocked public channels just seems more inviting, I believe is what I'm trying to say.

So, in the end, Skype is too/more "private" than Teamspeak in a community-based server, and having locked channels doesn't give off a very welcoming sign either. I think things are fine the way they are, honestly. When someone joins the channel and you are having a private conversation, you can either move to another channel and ask the new member to leave you be for a minute or so, or ask them to leave for a bit either way. I've seen Teamspeak servers where if you are around for a considerable time and prove not to have troll intentions where staff rank you up to "Member" to join a replicated channel list that only these "members" can join, but once again.. I don't see much of an issue with how it is now. It was a good idea, but -1 from me.

 

This is denied, the reason being is pretty much a liability issue. What we'd have is potentially a dozen channels, all unmoderated. However, we'd no doubt be called to them all the time, and have to deal with silly things. Then we'd have to argue about rules as they state our rooms, our rules. More worrying though, is the potential for unsuitable material to be exchanged, or shared on this teamspeak. There is so much that could happen, and should anything horrible happen, it would happen on our server, in the end making us partially responsible too.