Like many have said already... to have a handful of diverse WarLight members (players) to be able to regularly or at the very least semi-regularly read forum posts and flag or move comments and/or threads that do not belong where they are placed or are offensive would be invaluable. There is nothing stopping my from creating an off-topic thread in the map development section. I think that would be a fantastic start.

In response to the original question though, I think these same people would be able to moderate reports such as these. From my understanding, as of right now it is only Fizzer and Mercer that go through reports, which I assume pile up due to the multitude of people that love this site, and the natural conflict of open chat "war" games. Having a collective group that could deal with these simple issues would make everything get done faster and in my mind, make the WarLight community closer and stronger.

Someone else said something about using alts to troll. While the verification of email accounts is a thing, it is broken. It does not require it to be a valid email address or even verified at any point. It is just an additional feature. I think this needs to change and having your email attached to an account gives the idea of more responsibility. Yes, you can still create another email but I don't think there is any foolproof way around this issue. The current system just has too many important flaws.

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Im reposting this because Im pretty sure it got buried in car pics. I like Shyb's idea of simply having an M rated player become invisible to players who choose that they dont want to see M rated material. This way matchmaking wont be affected, and people can still play in ladders. The only problem i see with my idea is that in team based games or diplos where communication is used for strategy, the invisibility could become a hinderance. Any suggestions for that? Maybe make team chat visible?

I don't like hiding content. Hiding your content does not solve the problem, it simply masks it. Is that what we want to do, mask the problem? It's like popping pills for everything that hurts rather than getting off our lazy butts and getting in shape. Treat the underlying cause, not the symptoms.

Thats what blacklisting basically does, and everyone on here seems to be ok with blacklisting

But Blacklisting isnt strong enough.... thats why were having this discussion...

+One Trillion to Chris.

Honestly, I just wish people would be more mature on threads like this one. Blacklisting can only do so much, they ca still join common games etc.

yes get mods for christ's sake. i've never seen a forum with this many posters without any mods. i have rarely seen a post get moved to off topic, and maybe a couple of things get deleted by fizzer or mercer here and there, but 2 people can only do so much (and i would rather have fizzer spend his warlight time on fixing stuff or adding new features)(or taking a vacation or something).

hiding mature content might mask the problem, but i don't think it is a problem that can be fixed anyway. you could be more hardcore about banning people or verifying emails, but so much stuff will still slip through the cracks. a lot of people are on here to troll, and if someone gets mad (say, for getting banned) it is still easy enough to create a new email account and join again for more trolling.

i see this idea as useful as an extra protection against people seeing unwanted stuff to go along with mods, email verification, and blacklisting. maybe it's overkill if those things get implemented too, but it's still better than nothing.

and for team games, it could be as easy as the button that shows chat for blacklisted users, or maybe a button for just showing the chat for that particular game. but my guess is anyone not wanting to view content from an M player will just choose not to play with them.

Can we use 'O' instead of 'M'? M is for Membership and is one of the few things Members get that free players cant have. 'O' can work well because it's a distinct letter and can mean a variety of things.

Shyb, stuff does get moved to correct forums. I know for a fact people have those powers. I think that is it though besides some people who can promote things.

DISCLAIMER: I no longer represent or have any role in the Falcons.

What is the conversion rate on forum points to coins? I'd like to turn my trillion+ in.

Haha, you're so naive. Did you really think that Fizzer cares what the community has to say about anything? If he did, he would have taken those ugly car pictures off this thread a long time ago. He doesn't give a rat's ass about the forum, he just wants to appear like he does. Even my posts were kept for the most part, while only a handful of them have been removed.

TL, I think he does care, but he doesn't remove it because he just doesn't wanna make it seem like we're moderated too much. But with people having names like Swallows (Originally Cumburper), he's gonna have to do something to put his community back together.

And I think he's kinda giving us an example of what it looks like without moderated forums as well. Look at the car posts, if there were moderators on the forums, they would've taken them down and tossed them aside rather than two full pages of forza and shitty cars.

Huh? So Fizzer's laziness is now being framed as an intentional display of an unmoderated forum. Yeah, right.

Also, the idea of labeling accounts as M is basically the same thing as a blacklist, just a global one. It's a stupid idea. I don't like to read that halfwit Thomas' posts, so I have to wait till the Mighty Warlight Council decides that his content is mature (ohhh the irony!). Just let me BL him myself, or just ban him.

Alts should also be labeled with an "A". The Lord, I'm talking to you.

I'm not sure the cause for not going to a real forum system (phpBB, vBulletin, SMF).

-Could it be a space issue on the servers (would take up much more)?
-Does he not want to give controls to mods (trust issue)?
-Not a priority (more important things to implement)?
-Not enough knowledge (hasn't really used advanced forums enough to know what to do)?

Only he knows. If it is a space issue, we can't help him there (maybe his investor, coin games, etc allow that now). If it is control issue, I think there are enough people who have shown loyalty on here, and you can restrict control like I said by not giving actual deletion abilities, so I think that is a bad reason. If it is a time issue, people like me can help. If it is a knowledge issue, again we can help.

Death, you're killing me. What do you have against alts? Like this one:
https://www.warlight.net/Profile?p=2841668821

^ +1 Chris

Edited 3/18/2015 17:43:50