EVE General Discussion

Heya Eshtir, well I'm happy to hear the point you make on mods not being able to moderate anything involving their own player, corp alliance. That does resolve a big concern obviously.

I guess we'll agree to differ on the proportion reports thing - I can see your point that it might well create rumours (if it turned out one particular alliance was was dominating the mod numbers for example) but on the other hand not knowing the proportion can also lead to the suspicion of bias in the mind of people using the service.

Still, I guess we see how it all goes.

All the best.

I do not feel there is a need to do this at present but it is certainly something we can look at if it is warranted.

Let me explain a little why we would take this approach.

People who volunteer generally do so because of their passion for the community and for a desire to help. While this team is in its infancy we are conducting regular reviews of the moderation logs to ensure that volunteers are performing their role in a fair and balanced way. We would not feel comfortable putting them under a microscope when there is currently no allegation of wrong-doing.

What I can tell you is that our volunteer team are made up of alliance members, NPC corp members, mission runners, miners, PvP'ers and every aspect of game play.

In addition, the contributions from volunteers can often result in employment with CCP such is their contribution. As a matter of fact, many on the current community team have originated from this very program.

I hope this answers your query and I will assure you that we will continue to help our volunteers grow, develop and learn from any mistakes.

Presently if someone doesn't like someone else's posting or if they are getting insulted they can simply block the posts. The offender can post Bill is an idiot, but Bill stops responding. The offender gets bored. Works fine.

Of course there is no way this new system will get exploited by some group interest planting it's operatives on your team. Noone in EVE knows how to do such a thing. Or exploited by some individual on your team with a fixed point of view that they want to prevail. You are asking for a whole lot of trouble CCP. Censoring the forums is the wrong way to go.

And there I was, thinking that the CSM was doing this as part of their job description.
CSM was and should be the sounding board from playerbase to CCP.
Not some anonymous grunts with player unknown affiliations.

Who are you guys and girls in CCL to determine if a thread or post by a player is worthy to be pointed out?

I don't see the point, use or need for some anonymous players to be our spokesperson in regards to what is of interest and what isn't.

Luckily ISDs only moderate the forums. If you ask me these forums need some tighter moderation than they've had in the past, and need some adjustments in how the moderation is handled.

For the population that we've got we probably have the most active forums. Just imagine this level of activity with the population of a successful theme park MMO. CCP has to have volunteers, they don't make enough money to pay an entire staff of moderators. Not with the number of subscribers that they have right now.

What happened to the old moderation folks?

This is very open to abuse, from extreme tinfoil hattery levels right down to simple cases of an individual with his own very limited views and opinions deleting posts he disagrees with and spitting out meaningless stock responses as justifications for it.

Where do i vote for the removal of the ISD/CCL forum team?

Community liasons,hahahahaha.
Far too silly

People sign up for various reasons, these have been explained by some users in this thread already. I will not go into any detail of why people volunteer for CCP, as that is a question in the interview process and i prefer unique answers to that question instead of a copy paste line that you may find here.

You might also want to edit out the leads@eve-ccl.net email adress you have in your signature as we do not answer player emails about moderation actions. Currently, the correct channel is to file a petition in the community category.

You can bet on it that there is some sort of compensation for volunteer work. The details about it shall remain between ISD and CCP. Though it is nothing that will give us an advantage over other players.

And no, i do not feel "crap at the minute". I try to make the best out of the situation and evaluate the history of past events and write feedback to my team about it.