deletedover 9 years

Right now the mod team is discussing spamming as a vio and we're considering condensing it into one vio. This means that spamming in unranked games will now be a community vio and thus against the rules, contrary to how it is currently moderated. It would also be moderated in sandbox, which it currently isn't.

Right now, we just want to get a consensus of how the site feels about this. Do you think spamming should be moderated in unranked + sandbox?

Should spamming be moderated in unranked and sandbox?
44
No
18
Yes
deletedover 9 years
you already get temporarily muted for spam i think that is enough
over 9 years
Yeah i interpreted this as excessive and i think kino's posts confirm that so I think in those extreme cases yes they should get vio's. But theres also spamming in games thats like not a big deal and nobody really gets that annoyed with it. So hopefully the mods can tell the difference, but i think what Kino said and the examples provided prove that they can
over 9 years
there's already a spam penalty in games if you post too many times in a row. maybe adding one of those for vote flashing would help, but aside from that, its not generally a terribly big deal so much as it is a bit irritating. spammers usually get killed by irritated people anyways
deletedover 9 years
Kicking is there for a reason. You kick people you don't want to play with or know are jerks. Leave sandbox alone. We don't need mod favoritism and a whole bunch of new reasons for violations.
over 9 years
"Ruining the experience for other people is fun lol!"

You're not a sandboxer; you're just a jerk.
over 9 years
Because it's funny I don't think you have the right to impose your own sense of humor upon others
over 9 years
why
over 9 years
It makes me laugh :3
over 9 years
how so
over 9 years
No it doesn't, it enhances it
over 9 years
to some extent it's fun and okay but that's just really excessive and annoying. sandbox is to have fun and mess around and play-non seriously but spamming to this extent disrupts actually fun, non-serious play
over 9 years

Steven says

I don't play sandbox so I won't vote in the poll but I thought the point of sandbox was to be able to do all that stuff and mess around without getting reported.



over 9 years
I don't play sandbox so I won't vote in the poll but I thought the point of sandbox was to be able to do all that stuff and mess around without getting reported.
over 9 years
I do not, they make Sandbox enjoyable
deletedover 9 years
yes, I support vios in all those cases.
over 9 years
here's some example games of the sort of things we'd begin to consider vioing for

text spam by thegameguy - https://epicmafia.com/game/3414093

text spam by billieson - https://epicmafia.com/game/3381561

vote spam by trololomakinmoney - https://epicmafia.com/game/3400907

vote spam by bimbis - https://epicmafia.com/game/3376748
over 9 years

error says

look at all these people who don't even play games in sandbox having opinions on how games in sandbox should be moderated. awful thread

over 9 years
though there should be a voting spam restriction built in anyway like there is for spamming everything else, there's really no reason for there not to be.
deletedover 9 years
Alternatively, make me admin.
over 9 years
oh wait maybe i'm wrong, i thought chatbox spam was in site spam but it doesn't appear to be.
over 9 years
make kino the sole moderator of sandbox
over 9 years
chat spam is already a community violation, see "site spam"
over 9 years
there's no reason even if you're silenced to change your vote 100 times in a game esp within a short time frame. even if you turn logs off you still often (because the person doing it wants to annoy and picks the longest name possible) have trouble voting who u want to

spamming has always been moderated on excessiveness, if it's just like 10 long messages in a row it's fine but if it's like the same long message through the entirety of a game it's super annoying and disrupts the game
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kino says

it would only be moderated if it is excessive in unranked


what about excessive in chat because thts also annoying
over 9 years
it would only be moderated if it is excessive in unranked