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I touched on this in the SG registrar thread briefly. The main obstacle to this is the need to maintain a "T" rating. Folks will get around word filters and make obscene ASCII art and the like. For what it's worth I agree with the intent of the idea, but with respect I can't see this approach being acceptable.
If this is going to be a problem, then they might as well remove the chat system as well...
Wow...there's one I never considered. Mean people ruin it for everybody lol
I remember when Star Wars was cool...a long, long time ago...
So long as the bulletin board records who posted the current message, there's a pretty obvious "whodunnit" trail leading straight to the perpetrator. SG Leadership can then either discipline the perpetrator of such "obscenities" or the membership can decline as people "vote with their capes" to join other SGs that are better led/moderated.
Furthermore, I believe that the idea in question is an internal bulletin board ... [url=http://paragonwiki.com/w/images//5/5a/Corkboard_1.jpg]so[/url] [url=http://paragonwiki.com/w/images//d/de/Corkboard_2.jpg]basically[/url] [url=http://paragonwiki.com/w/images//d/d7/Corkboard_3.jpg]stuff[/url] [url=http://paragonwiki.com/w/images//a/ab/Corkboard_4.jpg]like[/url] [url=http://paragonwiki.com/w/images//d/d1/Whiteboard_1.jpg]this[/url] [url=http://paragonwiki.com/w/images//9/90/Whiteboard_2.jpg]in[/url] [url=http://paragonwiki.com/w/images//2/2e/Whiteboard_3.jpg]your[/url] [url=http://paragonwiki.com/w/images//f/f5/Whiteboard_4.jpg]Base[/url] ... which isn't on "public" display except when you've got non-SG members "touring" your SG Base.
[img]http://paragonwiki.com/w/images//5/5a/Corkboard_1.jpg[/img] [img]http://paragonwiki.com/w/images//d/de/Corkboard_2.jpg[/img] [img]http://paragonwiki.com/w/images//d/d7/Corkboard_3.jpg[/img] [img]http://paragonwiki.com/w/images//a/ab/Corkboard_4.jpg[/img]
[img]http://paragonwiki.com/w/images//d/d1/Whiteboard_1.jpg[/img] [img]http://paragonwiki.com/w/images//9/90/Whiteboard_2.jpg[/img] [img]http://paragonwiki.com/w/images//2/2e/Whiteboard_3.jpg[/img] [img]http://paragonwiki.com/w/images//f/f5/Whiteboard_4.jpg[/img]
In this case, I'd say take a page out of World of Warcraft and how they handle signs giving directions. On mouseover, the saved message posted on the bulletin board pops up in a text box on your screen ... that way the art for the object doesn't have to change at all. If you've got edit permission for the bulletin, just click on it to edit it like a Bio text box. The bulletin board will record the identity of the last SG member to edit it, complete with time stamp, so no Anonymous Dirty Messages. So although you'll be "able" to post naughty ASCII art if you want to ... everyone else in the SG will know that YOU did it and are responsible for it ... or that YOU are the last person who touched it, and therefore are responsible for the content. With attribution comes responsibility, and I figure that we can rely on SG's to self police well enough for this kind of problem to be essentially a non-problem, even if it exists to some small extent due to the "stew in your own juices" factor.
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Last I recall, I thought the T rating wasn't effected by anything the player could do...like swearing when people disable the chat filter.
There's usually an "Interaction with other players is not covered by ESRB rating" message in there somewhere.
That said, while I can see a simple "bulletin board" (basically a base object that displays a MOTD-like message set by whoever has write permission in the base) being implemented, and an event calendar could work just as well, too... I don't see why the devs would want to reimpllement phpBB in the game instead of just letting guilds find or build their own solution.
And before someone suggests putting hyperlinks in the bulletin board base objects, so clicking there takes you to an external site... how long before that's nothing but rickroll and goatse?
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A simple calender/events list/"Major announcements"/guild info page would be handy though.
Because not everyone has the "skills" or knowledge of where to look for decent hosting. Some just want something that is *in game* to check for information.
My guild in WoW (for example) whilst I was playing had about 40-50 active members. We used WoW's ingame calender to set up events for the players, as well as the general Guild announcement (when you log into the game) to spread important information.
Having stuff *ingame* makes it easier to make sure that you get players involved. That is not to say that I am expecting built in forum access into the game, or full html customisation for events, but I think that headway can be made to improve on what CoX had (changing the announcement when you log into the game, that was dumped into your SG chat), and making it easier to organise events as well without having to go out of game.
Indeed. Also, the OP's idea included letting SG permissions control what ranks could post, so that (and the accountability of who posted what) seems like the game would have taken the players reasonable tools for managing it.
This. When I saw the idea, and considered why leaders might want to restrict the ability, it felt like the ingame bulletin board would just be a compromise for SGs that didn't have forum/calendar elsewhere. Ideally you'd want anyone in the SG to be able to create an event, and that is less of a can of worms on an individual SGs page than it is on an ingame feature. That said, there were lots of SGs that were not made up of 'random' people, so I expect they'd be comfortable opening up the ingame event board to all members in cases like that.
I guess another option would be to let the ingame board subscribe to an RSS feed on the site that the leaders moderate, but there'd be no policing of what the leader set it to (or of what would end up there if that site was hijacked at some point) so whee.
Anyway, I always thought it would be nice if the corkboards and whiteboards were less static. At the very least, it would have been nice if if the static whiteboard content was less salesteam-y. :3
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