Moderated Chat

Steppin · #1 03-22-2005, 07:58 PM

Not sure where to post this ...
Today i entered (for the first time) one of the CHAT Servers... ( surprised ony Only ONE chat room for english speaking),and to my DISMAY, the darn thing is MODERATED.. now pray tell, WHAT is the POINT to having a CHAT Room if they deny you the ability to SPEAK and ask for HELP....?
in my opinion this TOTALLY defeats the purpose of such a room ...

Humudce · #2 03-22-2005, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Steppin

Not sure where to post this ...
Today i entered (for the first time) one of the CHAT Servers... ( surprised ony Only ONE chat room for english speaking),and to my DISMAY, the darn thing is MODERATED.. now pray tell, WHAT is the POINT to having a CHAT Room if they deny you the ability to SPEAK and ask for HELP....?
in my opinion this TOTALLY defeats the purpose of such a room ...

Not sure if this is the correct place to post this. It sounds more like something that should be posted on the official forums on the Sony site.

Just an FYI when the Servers are down for what ever reason, or the people in the Chat Rooms on the Sony Launchpad Chat are getting out of control. (Which happens often right after a big patch or extended server downtime), they will lock down the room and make it Moderated. At that point all you can do is send a PM (Private Message) to one of the Moderators. Bear with them on getting a response as they are getting bombarded with PM's.

***Dolby*** · #3 03-22-2005, 08:31 PM

Moved to chit-chat forum. This isnt an interface request. Please take the time to read each forum description before you post. Thanks.

Also changed the title of your post to something more descriptive. Hard for people to tell what the thread is about with your old title.

There are so many people spamming the chat rooms that they need to moderate them. It seems on patch days the chat rooms attract some of the worst of the worst people that like to spam nonsense so others cant get help or chat nicely.

xianthar · #4 03-25-2005, 12:47 PM

Every day at the same time The chat rooms are very quiet with only a few people in them. The servers come down for their daily reboot. This happens every day around the same time yet over 1000 surprised users rush to the chat room and start flooding it with "What the HELL?" " IS xxx server down?". They all ignore the message at the top of the screen. They rant about how horrible sony is. Then some of them get bored and turn into trolls and spam something repeatedly . Around this time a GM will moderate the room. Then over 1000 people move to the French chat server and repeat the process until it gets moderated . Then the German server usually follows. Once the servers come back up and everyone goes away they turn the moderation off. If you go to the chat server when the servers are up you won't likely see moderation.
My opinion on this is that since you are told that your actions in chat can get you warned or banned they should enforce this and warn the spammers and threaten their game accounts. Having moderation as the only consequence is more of a reward to the offenders and punishes the well behaved people.