Cleaning up Thunder Bluff

An anonymous reader writes "Colleen Hannon at Gamers With Jobs is mad as hell, and she's not going to take it anymore. 'Unless you're playing Neopets, online servers are full of foul-mouthed, racist junk-monkeys. The hate-filled miasma they spatter around them has reached the point where many people who could be on those services won't go, and those who do brave it won't go without a posse and riot gear.' She plays out every side of the argument: why things have gotten as bad as they've become, what publishers have and haven't done about it, and why she thinks things are now at unacceptable levels of incivility. She's calling on us gamers to get together and figure this out, because: 'If we wait for the new sheriff in town to fight this battle for us we might not like the town we're left with.' Is it as bad as she says?"

Comments

Don't like it? Don't play.

[_bug_]

Seriously. Don't play. If these MMOs saw a significant drop in its users due to this sort of thing I think they'd work to find some creative solutions for the problem pretty quickly. As it is, that doesn't appear to be happening. Even the author, rather than quit, is going to stick around and try to clean things up.

So either the problem isn't really that bad or the author gets entertainment out of acting as moral police and (en)forcing their moral views on others and would prefer it this way to begin with.

Re:Just leave general chat

[shokk]

Shut up you *&!@^$*&^@ N00bZ!!!
j/k