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Renegade

Australian Skial God
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Is it against the rules to talk about random stuff on servers? Because I just saw an admin mute someone for talking about comics on 2Fort for "spam".
 

Phantom 5.0

Totally Ordinary Human
Contributor
I apologize if you feel the silence was unnecessary, but when the voice chat becomes a problem for teams to communicate with each other, it's considered "spam." I have no issues with talking about comics or characters, however; when there are multiple complaints from other players about the content and duration the discussion, I had to act. I had asked nicely to end the conversation, but was rudely ignored.
 

Renegade

Australian Skial God
Contributor
I apologize if you feel the silence was unnecessary, but when the voice chat becomes a problem for teams to communicate with each other, it's considered "spam." I have no issues with talking about comics or characters, however; when there are multiple complaints from other players about the content and duration the discussion, I had to act. I had asked nicely to end the conversation, but was rudely ignored.
I don't see any rule that dictates what people can and can't talk about in the server rules. There's an !ignore command and the mute option on the menu for a reason. Why is there an !ignore command and mute option on the menu if no one is going to use it?

The only reason people complained was because they didn't want to hear multiple people talking about random things. That hardly sounds like a valid reason to mute someone for a day.
 

haytil

Mildly Menacing Medic
I apologize if you feel the silence was unnecessary, but when the voice chat becomes a problem for teams to communicate with each other, it's considered "spam." I have no issues with talking about comics or characters, however; when there are multiple complaints from other players about the content and duration the discussion, I had to act. I had asked nicely to end the conversation, but was rudely ignored.

So what you're saying is that someone wasn't breaking the rules, so you muted them?
 

Phantom 5.0

Totally Ordinary Human
Contributor
I don't see any rule that dictates what people can and can't talk about in the server rules. There's an !ignore command and the mute option on the menu for a reason. Why is there an !ignore command and mute option on the menu if no one is going to use it?

The only reason people complained was because they didn't want to hear multiple people talking about random things. That hardly sounds like a valid reason to mute someone for a day.

Unfortunately, admins aren’t allowed to use the !ignore function.

However, it is at the admins discretion to determine what is and isn’t “spam.”

I fully understand and respect your opinion, but we’ll have to agree to disagree.

Again, apologies for the inconvenience.
 

Renegade

Australian Skial God
Contributor
Unfortunately, admins aren’t allowed to use the !ignore function.

However, it is at the admins discretion to determine what is and isn’t “spam.”

I fully understand and respect your opinion, but we’ll have to agree to disagree.

Again, apologies for the inconvenience.

It's not a matter of agree to disagree. You muted someone for a day because you didn't like that him and four other people were talking about something you didn't want to hear. There is no rule that dictates what can and can't be spoken about in the voice chat. It wasn't spam. It's a bullshit call.

And there were four other people, including myself, that were in on that discussion we were having. Why just him? Why not all four?
 

Renegade

Australian Skial God
Contributor
So what you're saying is that someone wasn't breaking the rules, so you muted them?
I guess if enough people complain about something, they can get muted for an action that isn't even against the rules. That's what it sounds like to me.
 

KillerZebra

Forum Admin
Contributor
If he wasn't breaking any rules he needs to be unmuted. Talking on the mic isn't spam, instead of muting him you could have done several other things.

1. Call a vote and let the server decide to mute him
2. Client mute
3. Leave the server

I am not sure who told you admins can't ignore people.
 
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