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DaRu
DaRu
Well-Connected

Jul-14-2004 20:15

Recently I was harassed by a person who sent me a threatening message stating that he would be my worst nightmare, and then he continued to get sexual which scared me to death.When I clicked on his name to check his status, I noticed he was new, because there was zero activity period. At first I thought he was trying to be funny, and being the fun natured person I am,I tried to reply back being being funny, but this made matters worse, so after the second message,I blocked him, (thank goodness Ben put the blocks on for us), anyway, I learned from two other ladies that they recevied messages too. Another lady and myself reported him to Ben, and he banned his membership;. However,we've learned that he goes by four other names here, so here's what I'm getting at. I feel, if a person gets on here solely to cause trouble, and they don't have any activity going on, then they should be banned from playing. These message boards are for agents to share with each other about the game, to learn, and to be have clean fun.When others misuse these boards, or join only for the purpose of chatting or bugging agents, then they should be banned.What does everyone else think about this? This is just my thoughts. Hope to here your responses. Your friend, DaRu

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Elsey
Elsey

Jul-15-2004 21:31

Perhaps the idea of several days with no experience could be a good one. Perhaps, when they sign up, something will be there stating that if they do not gain experience within, say 3 days, thier account will be deleted? Keep the popups, keep the message boards. The idea of the email address is good, except, what about people like me, who HAVE multiple names. This is for boredom. If i complete all 8 of my allowed games, and still have time to kill, I get onto my unsubscribed character and kill time there.

DaRu
DaRu
Well-Connected

Jul-15-2004 21:39

Hello Ben, I thought of something. What about adding a feature to where visitors can select play as a GUEST, say for a one week's trial, allowing them to use all features, but to keep rift raft out, still make them sign on using their real email address or birthdate, then if they want to join, they can still use the same name when they join for good, or subscribe. Did that make sense? I know when I've played games at playsite, or gamesville, I had to give my email address;and, I think birthdate.

Sleuth Admin
Sleuth Admin
Tale Spinner

Jul-16-2004 09:33

Well additional hurdles such as birthdate and email just make it slightly harder to register new users, I've worked for a few companies who use similar strategies, and they don't really even to slow down abuse accounts. It's too easy to sign up for new email addresses at yahoo, or other free mail providers. What those hurdles do, however, is make it inconvenient for first time players, to the point that a certain percentage of them decide it's not worth the trouble, and leave before they try the game at all.

Auto-banning players who go several days without gaining any experience seems like it would just encourage people to make brand new detectives. Since that only takes 30 seconds or so, I don't really see how that would help.


DaRu
DaRu
Well-Connected

Jul-16-2004 09:56

Well, I suppose it's impossible to detour it, and like I stated earlier, you know all about the in's and outs, what works and doesn't, so the thing for me to do is relax, and rely on my block button, which is the best resources anyway; plus, coupled with fact that we have you here (live), to keep things running smoothly. If it should happen again, I'll ignore it.

Jojo
Jojo
Old Shoe

Jul-17-2004 15:12

Could you make it so you read all messages sent, Ben? That way once certain words/phrases are used that are inappropriate, you could warn/delete that user. Or do you already have something like this in affect? (or is it effect? Whatever!)

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