Discord Moderation

Certain behavior inside of the official Simcountry Discord has simply gone too far in breaching the Terms and Conditions of the game. I feel like, the player base at large, has a pretty tough stomach when it comes to colorful personalities. But a lot of us are upset there there doesn't seem to be much accountability on the Discord.

As an example, player 'Blackwater' called another player, Greg a 'Kike Jew' that came from a 'Nigerian shithole country'.





I'm not trying to get offended on someone else's behalf, but it's just not needed in official Simcountry servers. This obviously goes against the member conduct portion of the terms and conditions:

"3. You are prohibited from transmitting through the w3creative site and services any unlawful or harassing or abusive materials and you will refrain from distribution or use of any threatening, obscene or vulgar material of any kind.

4. You are prohibited from transmitting through the w3creative site and services any hateful or racially or ethnically objectionable material."

I am advocating less for this player to be punished ASAP and more for the Discord to have some level of Moderation to keep out the riff raff and not discourage new players from asking basic questions, or conversing in general. Players can be edgy as they want in DMs, or their own Discords, but on the Official Discord trolls should be removed.

I would advocate for a, or several, Discord moderators (ideally from the community) that provide a simple service or removing or muting players that break the code of conduct. This would strictly be for Discord communications, bans from the game would obviously lie with the GMs.

The pictures obviously failed to load, but it's screenshots of messages said player deleted shortly after. I wont try to upload them again here now, but can if needed.

+1

it looks really bad to a new player to see these kinds of things on a discord server linked to by the game itself.

This does need your attention, Andy.

It's best to cut the weeds early, before they became endemic. Most of the games similar to us have become toxic communities full of tinfoil.

On a separate note, have the messages been reported to Discord? I believe Discord Staff may reach the Server Owner if it becomes a repeated issue.

I have reported most of the message I have seen. They have emailed me saying they have "taken action" but that's all I get, and he still appears to be active on discord so I'm not sure what they've done.

I enjoy flame wars as much as the next guy, but we really need a containment channel for them to duke it out in. This reflects poorly on the game, especially since one of the parties is clearly serious and not role playing.

If players feel the need to flame each other in public like that, then they should at least take the time to at least wrap it up in some good role play. Back in the day some of the best forum threads in this game and others, were flame wars thinly veiled as role play.

"It's best to cut the weeds early, before they became endemic. Most of the games similar to us have become toxic communities full of tinfoil."

Well said! There needs to be some level of etiquette enforced.