What. The. Hell? (Community)

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goober king

Jun 4, 2006, 2:59am
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y57/JaguarHahn/kicked.jpg

I just tested this out in AlphaWorld, and confirmed it: AW now has a
GLOBAL Customs Aide monitoring all chat everywhere in the world. After
*two* offenses, you're ejected from the entire Universe for around half
an hour.

Who's brilliant idea was this, and where is he so I can wring his
scrawny little neck?!

--
Goober King
*&%O*&*^)*(%(^&$(&$^
http://www.gkstudios.net

baro

Jun 4, 2006, 3:11am
that's horrible

shred

Jun 4, 2006, 3:16am
Ignoring the Orwellian overtones of the new policy, it's a little unfair
of AWI to change the rules without telling us. It used to be that users
had to abide by the world rules within the 200 meter chat range around
ground zero. Outside of this range, they were free to say what they wished.

I suspect that the new Customs Aide will simply drive AlphaWorld
downward a little faster on its ongoing fall to the bottom of the
populated worlds list. I'm not being pessimistic, though. I think that
if enough of us send polite, reasonable complaints to AWI, they will
remove or modify the new CA. They did scrap those horrid weather bots
after enough users expressed their displeasure with them.

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duskbat

Jun 4, 2006, 3:18am
its true i was booted was inthe 30000north area of aw :( this is very
bad. and u cand use accii anymore in aw. and post web links in aw world
:( :( :( :( :(

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jaguar hahn

Jun 4, 2006, 3:23am
Dusk I agree buddy, we cant use web links. theyre useful man. I wish we
could do that. its veeeeerrrrry bad.

yeah >:O at that pic

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sw comit

Jun 4, 2006, 4:00am
My reaction as well. I'm going to pretend this was an oversight because I
just can't believe they would enable a global chat nanny over a world as big
as Alphaworld. I rarely use any cuss words but if I want to use it in a
conversation between my friends 100 miles away from GZ then that's my own
business. Who asked for this silly regulation o_O

Actually what's 10x worse though is no web links in chat anymore. I depend
on the convience of auto-linking in day to day chatting, as do most people.
*grumble*

- Com

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sw comit

Jun 4, 2006, 4:11am
No ascii? Ick, your right. Lotta people gonna lose their special trademark
faces now :(

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captain mad mike

Jun 4, 2006, 4:18am
Exactly. Of course, enforce language around GZ, but that's what Customs Aide
is for. This is just completely overkill.

-CMM

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equin0x

Jun 4, 2006, 4:29am
What. The. Hell. That is the best way to put it. It is the only way I could
start this post.

99% of the time, I have always been behind all of AWI's actions. This isn't
as major as marking up prices and all that jazz, but that is aweful.

We pay $69.95 per year, and we cannot even use bad language between
ourselves in the middle of nowhere?

AWI has defintally over-done it with the censorship.
At present, I cannot see the Custom Aide bot, so I'm guessing it has since
been cut.

I believe the world ratings were alright, no harm there. The excessive
"Beware Activeworlds may not be suitable for some..." blah blah bullcrap, we
could all live with, despite taking up valuable space for nice welcome
messages and room in AW GZ that sign objects occupied.

But this has gone way too far.

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equin0x

Jun 4, 2006, 4:32am
Eh, well, the bot is there.

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sw comit

Jun 4, 2006, 4:32am
Actually you know, I didn't even think about it at first...but what about
all the non-english speaking communities in AW? Don't they sorta need the
extended ascii characters? o_O

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equin0x

Jun 4, 2006, 4:49am
Thats what I warned them about long ago when I realised that this isn't
supported any longer.

I believe it's use English-characters, or not at all. I never did like the
weird characters in AWGate.

ô

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ciena

Jun 4, 2006, 9:34am
hmmmm anyone ever notice its usually the teens that cuss?
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goober king

Jun 4, 2006, 9:53am
Anyone ever notice its usually the older folks that complain about
cussing? ;P

The fact is, it doesn't matter who does it. AW is a PG-13 world, and if
someone feels the need to run a blue streak away from Ground Zero, they
should be able to. Even you should be able to see that this is taking
censorship way too far.

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Goober King
Running a blue streak
http://www.gkstudios.net

equin0x

Jun 4, 2006, 11:13am
If only the government was more like AWI...

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cryonics

Jun 4, 2006, 12:21pm
Global Customs Aide was an oversight. It has been disabled, sorry for the
panic ;-)

Cryonics

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hyper anthony

Jun 4, 2006, 12:25pm
Well gee, thanks for pointing fingers. Those that would assume
something about another group of people without backing it up seem a bit
worse off to me in the maturity factor, but thats just my opinion.

This is really a bad move AWI. Everyone else has mostly hit on it, but
ascii, web-linking, and yes, even swearing, are parts of chat we use
regularly in our conversations. I understand that there are oftentimes
some people who go over the top... I have to deal with them quite often
in awteen, but I don't feel that circumstances like that should put
everybody under the gun.

Again concerning the swearing issue... to all of you who would tell us
to expand our vocabularly, I ask... why? "Swear" worlds are just that.
Words. They're only taboo because we made them so, and some of them
are downright silly. How did a synonym to poop ever become a taboo word?

Web-links... thats a big pain. I too use those quite frequently and its
really convienent to have them available in chat to reference to another
chatter what a current conversation is about, or to give people
information and whatnot. You guys really need to seriously consider
putting that back in :/

-Hyper

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lady nighthawk

Jun 4, 2006, 11:41pm
Awww ya took the fun outa it JP :o/

LNH



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equin0x

Jun 4, 2006, 11:45pm
Psst.. While you were typing up your post, the global customs aide was
disabled. :)

equin0x

Jun 4, 2006, 11:46pm
Everyone can sleep safely now.

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hyper anthony

Jun 4, 2006, 11:52pm
I noticed ;)

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queen ramel o

Jun 25, 2006, 1:19am
HaHaHa He,s Got ya there Gurl =)


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Queen RaMel o
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~AWSRadio~
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