HyperGaming Network

Other Forums => Scrapyard => Server Dumps => Topic started by: Velspera on 07-06-2012

Title: OOC Chatter
Post by: Velspera on 07-06-2012
All of you on the server REALLY need to cut down on senseless OOC chatter.  This is an RP server, not a "talk about shit that doesn't fucking matter" server.  Whenever I come onto the server, all I see is scrolling walls of OOC text.  It not only pushes IC posts out of the way but it distracts people.

Especially those of you who talk OOC and don't understand how to use fucking parentheses or SOMETHING to let us know you're not IC.

If you are only chatting OOC with one or two people, have the courtesy to jump into a party together and use /p to talk quietly within your group so that you don't disrupt RP.

I'm warning all of you here so I don't have to warn you on the server because if I have to start actively warning people while I'm logged in I'm liable to start muting.

In short: More RP, less blah blah blah.
Title: Re: OOC Chatter
Post by: Tom on 07-06-2012
Thank you.
Title: Re: OOC Chatter
Post by: Minion on 08-06-2012
T.T Im sorry, Im especially guilty of this.
Title: Re: OOC Chatter
Post by: VonXeno on 10-06-2012
Quote from: Velspera on 07-06-2012
Especially those of you who talk OOC and don't understand how to use fucking parentheses or SOMETHING to let us know you're not IC.


I feel like I've seen you do that more than anyone else :l
Title: Re: OOC Chatter
Post by: Velspera on 12-06-2012
Quote from: VonXeno on 10-06-2012
Quote from: Velspera on 07-06-2012
Especially those of you who talk OOC and don't understand how to use fucking parentheses or SOMETHING to let us know you're not IC.


I feel like I've seen you do that more than anyone else :l

I can understand forgetting to use parentheses once or twice.  I do it sometimes myself.  If I see you talking about tables in parentheses and suddenly spot a post that's still talking about tables without parentheses, I'm not going to jump on your case.  Odds are, you could have just forgotten or you could have left one, or both, of them out because there's a strict character limit when posting in Terraria (the latter is usually what I end up doing.  I'm used to the character limit and sacrificing the first parenthesis in order to add periods at the end of sentences). 

However, when I complain about people not using parentheses it's directed at those players that don't seem to EVER use them.

If people are worried that I'm going to jump on the server and start screaming at players just because they're chatting OOC, then you don't know me that well at all. 

1) I don't kick people without at least a warning or two.

2) I'm not going to warn you if you've been talking OOC for 15 minutes.  I WILL warn you if you've been talking OOC for an hour with no sign of letting up.

3) Kicking is not the same as banning. 
Title: Re: OOC Chatter
Post by: Dungeon_Lord on 16-06-2012
You were always my favorite Moderator because you're sensible.
Title: Re: OOC Chatter
Post by: Velspera on 22-06-2012
Effective Immediately:

OOC Chat is to be kept to the Yellow Team Channel while on the server.  As always, /p is used for team chat.  You can enter the yellow team by opening your inventory with [ESC] and click on the yellow flag above your equipment on the right side of your screen.  This should keep the world chat free of OOC so that people who prefer only to RP can ignore all of the extra chatter. 

A few messages in world chat that are OOC are fine, however, if you're talking about something that you need to organize within the scene you are actively RPing, especially if you notice that the yellow team is heavy with chatter and you don't want your messages pushed off-screen by it.

Red, Blue, and Green channels are still completely open.
Title: Re: OOC Chatter
Post by: VonXeno on 22-06-2012
Quote from: Velspera on 22-06-2012
Effective Immediately:

OOC Chat is to be kept to the Yellow Team Channel while on the server.  As always, /p is used for team chat.  You can enter the yellow team by opening your inventory with [ESC] and click on the yellow flag above your equipment on the right side of your screen.  This should keep the world chat free of OOC so that people who prefer only to RP can ignore all of the extra chatter. 

A few messages in world chat that are OOC are fine, however, if you're talking about something that you need to organize within the scene you are actively RPing, especially if you notice that the yellow team is heavy with chatter and you don't want your messages pushed off-screen by it.

Red, Blue, and Green channels are still completely open.



That's a good one. +1 to putting that in the rules thread.



Title: Re: OOC Chatter
Post by: Redbark on 22-06-2012
Quote from: Velspera on 22-06-2012
Effective Immediately:

OOC Chat is to be kept to the Yellow Team Channel while on the server.  As always, /p is used for team chat.  You can enter the yellow team by opening your inventory with [ESC] and click on the yellow flag above your equipment on the right side of your screen.  This should keep the world chat free of OOC so that people who prefer only to RP can ignore all of the extra chatter. 

A few messages in world chat that are OOC are fine, however, if you're talking about something that you need to organize within the scene you are actively RPing, especially if you notice that the yellow team is heavy with chatter and you don't want your messages pushed off-screen by it.

Red, Blue, and Green channels are still completely open.
THis

But Kami, at least give us a little time to get used to it, other than start muting the shit out of everyone.
Title: Re: OOC Chatter
Post by: Kamimaia on 22-06-2012
Trust me, even I OOC in the main chat occasionally. I gotta get used to it too.
Title: Re: OOC Chatter
Post by: Velspera on 22-06-2012
Already added to rules.