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And the Shadow fell upon the Land, and the World was riven stone from stone. The oceans fled, and the mountains were swallowed up, and the nations were scattered to the eight corners of the World. The moon was blood, and the sun was as ashes. The seas boiled, and the living envied the dead. All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.
What a spectacular topic all in all. This really helped re-invigorate my fervor for this community. Nicely done.
Great, good to see you here again, Evilcam!
On topic, I think that limiting the posting privileges in the Optimatch to only Gold-linked accounts is a step in the right direction. I honestly thought that was going to happen in the last major update to be honest. Temper that position though. The Optimatch means something different to me than it does to most of you. I don't really have much interest in suggesting changes to the playlists, so I only really moderate in that forum. I rarely ever contribute anything. Being that I only view it through a moderator's eyes, I think its a mess, in dire need of fixing. But as I said, that's just my selfish reasoning.
The "ban on b.net=ban on xbox-live" issue seems moot, since Achronos already told us that Bungie themselves will never let it happen. That's a good thing in my opinion, because I honestly don't want to be responsible for xbox live issues on top of bungie.net issues. The very idea made me cringe a little bit. I think it would be effective if done correctly, but I don't think the rewards outweigh the risks in the long run. However, perhaps users who are known spammers/trolls who's GTs we know about could be banned.
I agree about the last part. If you are a well know spammer, known for creating alternate accounts etc, then you deserve to be banned from MM. But say you are an 11 year old kid new to the forums, and make several threads regarding some issues you have with Halo 3. Then you break most rules and you probably have bad grammar and spelling as well, but should you recieve a short ban from Xbox Live because of that? No.
And then another issue occurs: How do you tell the rookies from the spammers? You can't, so this system would be very hard to implent into the forums, too hard in my opinion.
}In addendum to that, perhaps banning users who constantly play with known spammers could be looked at too. Say, you play more than 10 games a week regularly with a known spammer, and you're banned from the forums and from live for 48 hours or something. It may take away some of the reason as to why spammers spam, in that they won't have friends who the can brag about their exploits to. Although, doing that may just make more spammers, who are angry about their arguably unjustified bans. Banning someone when they did not do anything wrong themselves is probably not the best method. I think that the risks outweigh the rewards there too. Though I'm just throwing it out there.
Sounds like a terrible idea Evilcam. Say you have a friend you know is a bad-ass spammer in these forums, naturally you constantly try to tell him that he should stop being such an ass. But he won't listen and still keep spamming. Would you stop playing with him just because he spams some internet forums? No, probably not. That would be like going to jail because you saw someone rob a store or something. Also, if he is just one of your random Xbox Live friends there is no way of knowing if he is a spammer or not.
As for everything else; I don't think the Halo 3 forum nor the Halo 2 forum should be restricted to Gold or Silver accounts. I think that those forums should be open to all who are willing to make an account here. The only problem is the gigantic mess that the Halo 3 forum is right now. I can't put into words the frustration that the Halo 3 forum insists I experience and pass on to some of you from time to time. I don't know what can be done to fix it though. Its frequently too busy to even keep up with, much less moderate. Trying to put the fear of being banned into them isn't working that well, because they see so many other misbehaving users get away with murder. I guess that's a different topic though.
To surmise, Optimatch & Gold accounts = win! Halo 3 & Halo 2 Forums, I don't know; and banning spammers GTs = win!!!!
As for the Halo 3 forum: Make both a Multiplayer and a Singelplayer Halo 3 forum. Only people with linked GT could post in the MP forum, and everyone could post in the SP forum. This would probably bring down the spam and make the job easier for you guys.
A quick note: Sorry if I had a lot of wrong spelling and bad grammar here, I'm at school so I don't have time to correct the post at the moment. Will do it later.
EDIT: Added another comment and fixed a typo.
[Edited on 10.26.2007 2:16 AM PDT]