Managing Player-Created Content In City of Heroes 43
Superhero MMO City of Heroes recently went live with its 14th expansion (release notes), one of the main features of which is the Mission Architect, a system to allow players to create their own quest content and then submit it to be implemented into the game. Now, Joe Morrissey of the City of Heroes team has written an article about how they plan to manage the content that players create. "You have to decide how draconian you want to be. The more hardcore you are, the fewer people who will see inappropriate content, but you expose yourself to potential grief voting. Grief voting is when a player flags perfectly acceptable content as inappropriate just because it's fun. If it only takes a single vote to eliminate content from the game, clicking that button is going to be the game for a lot of players. You don't want perfectly good content getting pulled because someone's a jerk."
Why stop at age-appropriate rating? (Score:4, Funny)
I don't quite understand why this guy seems set on only having a simple 'flag as inappropriate' button when there are so many more options available.
"Flag as inappropriate for Pastafarians."
Re:Meta-Moderation (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, Slashdot is perfect and there is no griefing on here whatsoever. Let's copy that.
Re:fuck you, comic book faggots (Score:3, Funny)
This user-generated level, "4Chan of Heroes" was brought to you by Anonymous Coward.
The never ending fight (Score:5, Funny)
They call it content management, but it's clearly censorship.
And who will fight censorship?
Captain Penis! Of course.
And Ass Guy, his faithful sidekick, or should I say flag bearer.