News: No more naming and shaming

[Mesha]

Dear players,

The ways of reporting bad or offensive names have been discussed among the staff intensively, and it has been decided to change these ways.

Currently, players may report violations of the name rules on the general board. These reports get processed by Gamemasters (usually Arien) and tend to be discussed. Furthermore, this topic was viewed more than 100.000 times with more than 4500 replies. It is usually a hot topic on top of the general board.

The majority of names reported belongs to newbie characters. As experience has shown, the vast majority of players abandons Illarion after less than ten minutes. Thus, the majority of reported names belongs to already inactive characters. Furthermore, banning a newbie is the most effective way to make sure the newbie is never seen again.

Therefor we have decided to delete the "Another Name to Kill"-thread, and have decided to let players only report bad or offensive names through use of !gm or e-mail (You can also PM me, Mesha). This change has been done to avoid endless discussions on names, and to avoid newbies potentially seeing their names being degraded (which is terribly incentive for a newbie to stay in the game).

Also, a new change regarding the online-list: Newbies aren't shown on it anymore, only the fact that a newbie is online. So when a newbie logs on, regular players will see: "And 1 newbie" similar to how hidden characters are shown. GMs can still see new players, judge their names or scoot over to help them

We hope to have informed you enough,

-Mesha

Since not everyone reads the news, and we feel it is necessary everyone knows. Please do not reply to this topic. Do not make any threads about this change. Feel free to PM me with any questions you might have.

[Estralis Seborian]

Translated.

http://illarion.org/general/de_news.php ... 6#news_156