Player Moderators / Player Game Masters

[Marancil]

Sounds like an open application already

It's a BAD idea in the broadest sense to give players power of a forum or game in whatever sense. Besides the legal problems, this will lead to several other issues. Seeing the current community, do you really expect a raid forum with a player mod to be an open discussion platform going back and forth with ideas?? lol, I can see the first claims of people being deleted for not being a friend already (true or not, it's gonna happen). This means instead of saving time, cord & co will now spend many hours looking into those complaints and finding if its true or not. And thats only 1 problem I can think of. Look, we've seen a pro doing the same stuff... Sapiens, it was his job and he just deleted post due to favouratism or handed out infrags at will. A new player will be taken the sapiense abuse to the next level... Result: cordovan & co can hire extra hands to sort through all the complaints. Its a terrible idea of the worst kind, it's bad beyond words this idea. In good times I would've had a different position probably (moria/mirkwood times) but currently it's just bad.

Maybe

You are not wrong, but I have higher hopes for this to work than you. As for legalities, sure there are a few to consider and they must be addressed somehow, we had death threats to developers due to balance issues (the guy threatened to take his life on a live video feed), lengthy posts about how they want to put down this or that head of state (which always leads to an investigation by US authorities), and devs having to explain stuff to the publishers because the publishers got an upset call from someone who did not like the answer (even if correct) they got at the forum, and went all bazooka with some executive at the publishers office.

So yeah, been there, done that a bit. In order to prevent this there must be rules and guidelines and a clear definition of responsibilities, no obvious liaisons to any given group of players and a clear sens of objectivity. Which may rule out 80% of the forum population, perhaps?

If I tell a player that the game will not work without DirectX9.C installed and he goes all bananas about "that is antique tech and I have W10 and I will not downgrade my system and you suck and I want to have contact with a bloody developer or CIO to sack you and throw you out for incompetence!!!" then you need to have a documented, approved, FAQ or documentation to lean on and explain to the dear gentlehobbit what actually goes. Humbly and patiently. Escalations are sometimes hard to avoid and, again, if the guy who answered this post was in any way bad for the game or for the publisher or for the devs, for no valid reason, his career as voluntary supporter is over.