NW_Mugsy

No worries. You made me check to see if I invented a use, haha.

You might want to double check that with a dictionary.
The Oxford English Dictionary shows that “ask” has been used as a noun since Old English. The word “request” didn’t even show up until the mid-1300s.

I encourage you folks to continue this discussion somewhere other than the New World forums, this doesn’t feel like actionable requests or feedback for our game at this point. Shutting this one down.

Thanks, I like the British vibes.

How have I been doing? Hits and misses, right?

No, it’s cool. I participate in the process of developing games but I consider myself more a part of publishing.

I know you are trolling but I am legit into these animal facts.

Representation is really important. We want everyone who plays our games to feel like there are reflections of themselves in the game they enjoy. We work to be inclusive, we want to hear feedback on ways we can be inclusive. The team will work to find the right ways to celebrate how diverse our player base is.
But we also can’t have the forums be a place where folks attack one another over the things they disagree on.

These are great suggestions, thanks. Turkulon definitely is a starting point. It is will really exciting to see where the team is able to take this concept and how we can work with players to make fun events like this better and better.

Haha I realized that after the fact, sorry. I was confused.

There is no forum autoban system. What I am saying is if a thread is generating a lot of reports, we can see it on the forum back end, peek in and find the flame wars happening. We’ll likely unlist the thread so it isn’t continuing to produce reports and clean it up, if it can resume being civil we should unlist it and continue to monitor. This is all very manual stuff done by humans which is why we care when threads are generating a ton of reports because it represents hours of work for humans.

I appreciate everyone’s feedback in this thread. our goal was to introduce something fun and seasonal into the game. We didn’t want to announce it or make it a big thing, just a fun surprise for folks to enjoy. I do understand the feedback that some players would have preferred it was announced and easier to find in-game.

What other feedback do you have on this kind of event? What do you like, what don’t you like? What suggestions do you have for possible future activities?

We are definitely working hard on fixes.

Clearly a different topic than forum moderation but, the team does listen to feedback not only from these forums but from a lot of different sources. We are working to improve our communication as well, you can see that in our efforts in the Developer’s Corner. But folks also need to see that we are listening in our actions and that can take more time. So I hear you on this, we know that we have work ahead of us to earn that trust.

This is a good question, any thread with a large volume of reports in it should be unlisted and cleaned up, which is not the same as permanently removed. Folks in violation of our Code of Conduct should receive appropriate moderation actions. Then, if the thread continues to offer a larger value to the community and should be able to return to a civil place, with a warning from the mods that they will keep an eye out, it should go live again.

Generally you do review every violation in the thread but when a thread is a violation factory, you typically unlist it and clean it up and then decide if it will be able to become a constructive discussion.

I understand moderation can be a difficult thing sometimes, people can feel targeted or it can feel oppressive. The goal of these forums is to create connection between the folks making the game and the folks playing the game. It isn’t always clear the best way to make sure one group feels heard but that it also doesn’t just become a flame war.

Hope this explanation is helpful. We are simply trying to enforce our Code of Conduct and threads that generate a ton of reports will be closed and scrubbed and violations will be handle by moderation.

Then you are not referring to the correct threads or the worst is being removed before you see it.

We don’t want to keep chasing threads all morning on the same topic producing the same results. If a thread is Closed the answer isn’t to recreate it immediately.