In game chat totally inappropriate

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Auric wrote:

I was thinking about this just a couple days ago and what I would do as a dev to send a first message to a player with abusive behavior.

What if when anyone puts another player on ignore, a tell or message saying "1 player has placed you on ignore status." but every time the player (account not character) gets more the tally climbs. "23 players have placed you on ignore status." Being able to "ignore" a players account might be help full with this too.

Devs could use the the number as a gage of how the player might be affecting the community too.

What do you all think about it?

/ignore is already account-wide
friends will be as well
and if you whisper an offline character, but that account is online, it'll automatically whisper the online character.

Meh, I play a game to relax and, you know, play. I don't think in-game chat should be exclusively for serious business, nor construed as serious. Furthermore, I'd wager playing a video game doesn't climb to high on a scale of seriousness. In my experience, if it offends you -- lighten up. If it still offends you, /ignore the offender. If the thought of future offenders seriously offends you, hide global chat and don't feed the trolls.

Besides, the game is for 13+ year olds; no doubt there will be teenagers. We all know the kind of jokes they find funny.

Clearly there are circumstances that justify administrator actions, especially when a few folks argue to no end on global chat, snuffing out any real conversation, or when a troll runs rampant resulting in a spamfest.

Truth is, I find the occasional trolling, lewd remarks, and ridiculous banter to be rather entertaining.

If you let people know how many players have ignored them, they will just know when to get a new account to troll everyone again.

I play with chat off. When I feel the need to laugh, I turn it on and start trolling. I'm not offended by bad language, immature behavior, or racism.

Someone gets on my nerve, I piss him off instead, or do the smart thing and ignore.

Filters never work.

The problem is the over reliance of this game on trading coupled with the non-existence of Auction House, which make global chat a necessity...

I don't have a problem with language in global chat, what does become irritating to me are racial slurs and hate speech spamming in chat. The problem with internet chat is that people can hide behind their computers and say whatever they want. In reality, the majority of people that speak in this manner wouldn't do so in real life because they would probably get the shit kicked out of them.

This and needlessly arguing about completely off-topic crap in global chat, such as politics, religion, the state of diablo 3, etc are two reasons I absolutely hate the single chat channel in poe right now. I monitor chat for trades and seeing how that is the only option, it can become tedious to sift through the garbage in global to find such messages.

Best would be to have a separate trading chat.

It's da internetz dudes, better live with it :)

The internet is no excuse for bad behavior, its amazing what people will say to others and the language they will use when they are just an alias on a screen. They wouldnt get away with it in public, and for GGG, and people playing the game to just accept it and say its the state of the internet, is why it has become the state of the internet.

Yes we can ignore it or turn off global chat, but why should we, sometimes people/companies have to give people guideliness on what is acceptable and what isnt.

By the way, Im a male, over 50, have heard and said my share of things, but not in public. Im not a prude. There are times and places for everything, an open chat is not the place for much of what I have seen. Usually parents, schools etc. let people know what is acceptable and where. Most people on POE have the common sense to know what is acceptable and what isnt, its always a few idiots that dont know better that are the problem.

default global is a shitfest, buncha 14 year olds spamming BS.

But I mean what else wou;d you expect its a free game.