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"Maybe instead of this they should change the way vo logs are time-stamped with local time, and change it to whatever freaky timezone Wisconsin falls into. Then they can just take the time from submitted logs rather than marry up times from differing logs sent to them from Bulgaria, Bolivia, the UK, pirate island and Disney land."
Um, do you seriously think the devs are stupid enough to use player-submitted logs? I.e., logs that can be easily tampered with? No. The server itself makes its own logs. Those are what the devs use. Even if you meant looking at a player-submitted log to see which specific thing they were complaining about and then searching through the server logs to match it up with the canonical trustworthy version, that is still a trivial operation -- copy some text from the player-submitted one, then use these nifty computing devices we all have to quickly parse through the logs and locate matching instances.
The thing that is time consuming is actually reading all that stuff to see if the muted party actually was just being a fuckwad who deserved to be muted.
Um, do you seriously think the devs are stupid enough to use player-submitted logs? I.e., logs that can be easily tampered with? No. The server itself makes its own logs. Those are what the devs use. Even if you meant looking at a player-submitted log to see which specific thing they were complaining about and then searching through the server logs to match it up with the canonical trustworthy version, that is still a trivial operation -- copy some text from the player-submitted one, then use these nifty computing devices we all have to quickly parse through the logs and locate matching instances.
The thing that is time consuming is actually reading all that stuff to see if the muted party actually was just being a fuckwad who deserved to be muted.
The thing that is time consuming is actually reading all that stuff..
Yes.
There are no player-submitted logs. We log everything on the server. But it's still a lot to comb through. We could spend a few weeks developing tools to make it easier, but we would rather spend that time on something that players can actually enjoy.
Yes.
There are no player-submitted logs. We log everything on the server. But it's still a lot to comb through. We could spend a few weeks developing tools to make it easier, but we would rather spend that time on something that players can actually enjoy.
Aye, tbh, the whole vote mute thing just suggests a few dozen vets with bugger all else to do in the game. Apart from EP nobody actually gives a damn.
Scrap it, put it down as history and give us something to fight about.
Scrap it, put it down as history and give us something to fight about.
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I think this is evidence that the current /vote mute thresholds are spot on.
It only requires 10 votes, but it's only 2 hours. You get vote-muted, go have lunch; watch a movie; do some laundry; run 2 miles and get a shower. Come back and play. The game will be better for it.
I've seen a few successful /vote mutes over the last few months and the majority were good for 100. Mostly newbs that were sitting in stations being annoying. And there have been many more /vote mute initiated that never went through that actually curbed annoying chat behavior. A lot of otherwise annoying folk responded with, "no! I'm done now!" and "sorry"... that kind of thing.
The only people I see that are worried about current /vote mute thresholds are those that fight their battles on 100.
It only requires 10 votes, but it's only 2 hours. You get vote-muted, go have lunch; watch a movie; do some laundry; run 2 miles and get a shower. Come back and play. The game will be better for it.
I've seen a few successful /vote mutes over the last few months and the majority were good for 100. Mostly newbs that were sitting in stations being annoying. And there have been many more /vote mute initiated that never went through that actually curbed annoying chat behavior. A lot of otherwise annoying folk responded with, "no! I'm done now!" and "sorry"... that kind of thing.
The only people I see that are worried about current /vote mute thresholds are those that fight their battles on 100.