Last night the HoN community was treated to an epic match, EG vs SK in the losers bracket of the Gosugamers.net World Cup.  The stream was watched by more than 4000 live, and as usual breakycpk was getting spammed the entire match with personal messages, friend requests, clan invites, channel bans and the like.   Little nerds want to get on the screen.  This is something that happens pretty much every match since honcast began with breaky or whoever is doing the camera having to find some crafty way to hide or disable or log out from chat while still watching the match or some shit like that to keep kids from messing with them.  Last night breaky was getting shit slammed with messages even while being in Do Not Disturb and Invisible mode.

Let’s take a second and pretend S2 could look at this problem and find a simple solution, given that it’s been happening every single honcast match and so its about time they did something like make an announcer mode or some shit where all messages and invites are completely blocked.  For the sake of example, let’s call such a system “Vote Kick”.  With the “Vote Kick” system breakycpk would never have his matches ruined by trolls and could get on with his shit.  But lets also look at another system, involving the unique S2 method of dealing with a problem.  In this method, [S2]Maide comes on the intercom and warns all players that interfering with the GosuGamers livestream will result in account bans.  For sake of example, let’s call this “Report a Player”.  Surely, with the threat of getting banned looming over them, no one would be stupid enough to keep spamming breaky.  Right?

As a massive surprise to all of us sentient beings, the result was exactly the opposite.  When [S2]Maide warned people to stop spamming the stream, the spam did not stop.  The stream was still getting ruined.  In fact, the spam started coming in much heavier AFTER this warning.  Poor breaky’s screen was overflowing with messages!!  Breaky was wasting lots of human resources dealing with this problem because of the “Report a Player” system.  He was typing /clear every 3 seconds and getting super distracted from his match!  Fuck multi-tasking!!!  S2 was wasting lots of resources too!  Their staff was sitting there banning kids instead of working on more important stuff or going to sleep since it was 2 in the morning and they have to go to work the next day and not be a big slobbering mess.  Sure, it was nice that some miscreants were getting banned, but the spam kept flowing in!!  It was like an avalanche of shit, with nerds pulling out more and more accounts, and coming up with sneakier and sneakier methods to spam the stream, like going in invisible mode themselves so it just says shit like ” has banned you from channel ” a million times on breakies screen!  CHAOS.

As a result, one might postulate that directly dealing with problems “the Vote Kick way” is better than indirectly dealing with them “the Report a Player way”.

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Tags: breakycpk, HoN, Honcast, report a player, vote kick

This entry was posted on Friday, January 7th, 2011 at 10:29 AM by daggius and is filed under Op/Ed. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.