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Hello! So, Im sure most people probably remember a few months ago, right before the Lo Crisis began, a new forum section was added, called the "Noble Rumor Court", where players could anonymously submit rumors.
Personally, I mostly enjoyed this system, as it had a very "Wheel of Time" feel to it- mainly because of how Robert Jordan focused on rumors and both how the characters affected then, and how they affected the characters. It was an interesting concept that had a lot of potential in my opinion... But of course, that section does not exist now, due to minor salt generation, and how memey it became with the constant spam of "ground up ___ from a ___ will do ___ if eaten!" ETC trash rumors.
In short, my suggestion is a reimplementation of this system, maybe using a separate admin account made specifically for the rumor section, maybe named "Gossiper" or something. The system would essentially work the same, with a name change and stricter regulations.
Firstly, it would simply be named "Rumors" , to remove the implication or ties to it being specifically a Noble thing.
Secondly, the rules would need to be expanded. Essentially before, the rules prevented you from making more than one rumor about a person/group/family in a week. This would stay the same, with the addition of something like "Trash rumors about random inconsequential things, such as rumors about eating parts of different races giving effects, are disallowed entirely." Anyone who breaks this rule gets one warning with their post being removed. The second time, they are blocked out of the system entirely. With no exceptions.
Thirdly, as for how users are able to respond or "react" or rate these threads- they aren't. Users are unable to reply, or rate the threads at all, to prevent subtle Meta with responses, or rating. Such as, for example, someone makes a rumor about my character, Conf, supposedly sleeping with another man. In the old system I could rate "Cute" or "Funny", which would subtly give the impression that the rumor is false, for anyone who bothered looking into the ratings.
Finally, players would be able to set the Prefix of their post to state which group this rumor is predominantly circulating among. "Sewers" being the Sewer Dwellers obviously. "Commoners" being the lower class people, the general populace of the city. "Merchants" being, well, merchants. and "Nobility" being the Nobles. No further clarification as to a source would exist. No, "This rumor seemed to come from ___." , to prevent more subtle meta and framings. Given the new rules require perms to be given for framing players of things, this seems like a necessary thing. Plus it limits the saltiness.
Last Note: If there is an excess of the same rumor, IE there are 3 posts about how Conf slept with a guy, within say a month, all but the original would just be removed. This extends to all things, just to limit the spam, and clear out the nonsense. This would also, again, limit the toxicity of the Rumor section.
Personally, I mostly enjoyed this system, as it had a very "Wheel of Time" feel to it- mainly because of how Robert Jordan focused on rumors and both how the characters affected then, and how they affected the characters. It was an interesting concept that had a lot of potential in my opinion... But of course, that section does not exist now, due to minor salt generation, and how memey it became with the constant spam of "ground up ___ from a ___ will do ___ if eaten!" ETC trash rumors.
In short, my suggestion is a reimplementation of this system, maybe using a separate admin account made specifically for the rumor section, maybe named "Gossiper" or something. The system would essentially work the same, with a name change and stricter regulations.
Firstly, it would simply be named "Rumors" , to remove the implication or ties to it being specifically a Noble thing.
Secondly, the rules would need to be expanded. Essentially before, the rules prevented you from making more than one rumor about a person/group/family in a week. This would stay the same, with the addition of something like "Trash rumors about random inconsequential things, such as rumors about eating parts of different races giving effects, are disallowed entirely." Anyone who breaks this rule gets one warning with their post being removed. The second time, they are blocked out of the system entirely. With no exceptions.
Thirdly, as for how users are able to respond or "react" or rate these threads- they aren't. Users are unable to reply, or rate the threads at all, to prevent subtle Meta with responses, or rating. Such as, for example, someone makes a rumor about my character, Conf, supposedly sleeping with another man. In the old system I could rate "Cute" or "Funny", which would subtly give the impression that the rumor is false, for anyone who bothered looking into the ratings.
Finally, players would be able to set the Prefix of their post to state which group this rumor is predominantly circulating among. "Sewers" being the Sewer Dwellers obviously. "Commoners" being the lower class people, the general populace of the city. "Merchants" being, well, merchants. and "Nobility" being the Nobles. No further clarification as to a source would exist. No, "This rumor seemed to come from ___." , to prevent more subtle meta and framings. Given the new rules require perms to be given for framing players of things, this seems like a necessary thing. Plus it limits the saltiness.
Last Note: If there is an excess of the same rumor, IE there are 3 posts about how Conf slept with a guy, within say a month, all but the original would just be removed. This extends to all things, just to limit the spam, and clear out the nonsense. This would also, again, limit the toxicity of the Rumor section.
